Re: Proposal: real procedures again (8.4)

On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 12:05:26AM +0300, Hannu Krosing wrote:
> Ühel kenal päeval, L, 2007-10-27 kell 12:55, kirjutas Josh Berkus:
> > Merlin, Pavel,
> > 
> > > Mutable session variables would be nice, but I'll take a plpgsql
> > > langauge (or psm) with or without them, so long as transactions
> > > are manual.  It's possible to emulate variables using scalar
> > > functions with the desired volatility currently (but you still
> > > have to be careful with transactions).
> > 
> > The other big useful feature we're missing from Functions is
> > multisets. 
> 
> I think that support for multisets has been removed from our fe-be
> protocol implementation bit-by-bit.

How do you mean?

The only way I've done multisets is by creating functions that return
multiple refcursors, either in a row or as SETOF.  Is or was there
some other way?

Cheers,
David.
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