Re: Calling function from VFP changes character field to Memo

On 11/15/22 9:44 AM, Frank Cazabon wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a simple table Patients with one field FirstName of type 
> character(30).
> 
> If I
> 
> SELECT FirstName From public.patients;
> 
> I get back the expected character(30) field.
> 
> If however I have a function defined like this
> 
> CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION public.testfunction(
>      )
>      RETURNS TABLE
>      (
>          Firstname character(30)
>      )
>      LANGUAGE 'plpgsql'
> 
> 
> AS $BODY$
> BEGIN
>      RETURN QUERY SELECT p.cFirstName FROM patients p;

In the first query the field name is FirstName not cFirstName.

Is this a typo or are they different fields?

> END;
> $BODY$;
> 
> And I call:
> 
> SELECT * FROM public.testFunction();

SELECT firstname from FROM public.testFunction();

> 
> Then FirstName returns as a Memo field (similar to a Text field).
> 
> Any idea what I need to do to get it to return the character(30) type?
> 


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