Re: Proposal: real procedures again (8.4)

On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 09:48:24AM +0100, Pavel Stehule wrote:
> 2007/10/30, David Fetter <david@fetter.org>:
> > Based on the example in TFM for PL/PgSQL:
> >
> > BEGIN;
> > CREATE TABLE foo(foo_id SERIAL PRIMARY KEY, foo_text TEXT);
> > CREATE TABLE bar(bar_id SERIAL PRIMARY KEY, bar_text TEXT);
> > INSERT INTO foo(foo_text) VALUES ('a'),('b'),('c'),('d');
> > INSERT INTO bar(bar_text) VALUES ('e'),('f'),('g'),('h');
> > CREATE FUNCTION wtf(refcursor, refcursor)
> > RETURNS SETOF refcursor
> > LANGUAGE plpgsql
> > AS $$
> > BEGIN
> >     OPEN $1 FOR SELECT * FROM foo;
> >     RETURN NEXT $1;
> >     OPEN $2 FOR SELECT * FROM bar;
> >     RETURN NEXT $2;
> > END;
> > $$;
> > SELECT * FROM wtf('a','b');
> > FETCH all FROM a;
> > FETCH all FROM b;
> > ROLLBACK;
> >
> 
> disavantages
> * it is transaction based, so you have to wait for first set untill
> function is completed (it's avantage too, but you havn't choice now)
> 
> * too much lines, for simple task

I'm not saying we don't need it.  I was just illustrating that it's
currently possible to return multiple result sets.

Cheers,
David.
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