Hi,
I'm playing around with functions returning result sets, and I have a problem with the following function:
-- Create sample data
CREATE TABLE employee (id integer, first_name varchar(50), last_name varchar(50));
INSERT INTO employee values (1, 'Arthur', 'Dent');
INSERT INTO employee values (2, 'Zaphod', 'Beeblebrox');
INSERT INTO employee values (3, 'Ford', 'Prefect');
COMMIT;
-- Create the function
CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION get_employees(name_pattern varchar)
RETURNS TABLE(id integer, full_name text)
AS
$$
BEGIN
RETURN QUERY SELECT id, first_name||' '||last_name FROM employee WHERE last_name LIKE name_pattern ||'%';
END
$$
LANGUAGE plpgsql;
COMMIT;
Now when I run:
SELECT *
FROM get_employees('D');
I get one row returned which is correct, but the ID column is null (but should be 1). It does not depend which row(s) I
selectthrough the procedure. I also tried to change the datatype of the returned id to int8 and an explicit cast in the
SELECTstatement, but to no avail.
When I define the function using SQL as a language (with the approriate changes), the ID column is returned correctly.
I'm using Postgres 8.4.3 on Windows XP
postgres=> select version(); version
------------------------------------------------------------- PostgreSQL 8.4.3, compiled by Visual C++ build 1400,
32-bit
(1 row)
What am I missing?
Regards
Thomas
