Re: returning multiple result sets from a stored procedure

Pavel Stehule wrote:
> 2010/9/9 Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>:
> > Darren Duncan <darren@darrenduncan.net> writes:
> >> Since Pg's FUNCTION already seems to take on both roles, so overloading the
> >> meaning of the FUNCTION keyword, like what a C function or a Perl sub does,
> >> where returning VOID means procedure, then what is being added by a distinct
> >> PROCEDURE?
> >
> > You might care to go back and re-read some of the extensive prior
> > threads about this, but to my mind the main thing that would justify
> > inventing a separate PROCEDURE facility is if procedures were to execute
> > outside the transaction system, so that they could start and stop
> > transactions for themselves. ?This is unlike a function which
> > necessarily executes inside an already-running transaction. ?Of course
> > a lot of questions would need to be answered about error-handling
> > behavior and so forth, but that's a capability that a LOT of people
> > have asked for.
> >
> 
> it's only one request from two mayor request
> 
> * transaction handling
> * unbound SELECTs and multirecordset support
> 
> and some more classic handling of OUT variables.

I assume the current thought is that our "functions" would remain
unchanged and new "procedures" would allow either of these.  I have
updated the "procedure" todo item to read:
 Implement stored procedures
   This might involve the control of transaction state and the return of multiple result sets
       * PL/pgSQL stored procedure returning multiple result sets (SELECTs)?       * Proposal: real procedures again
(8.4)      * http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2010-09/msg00542.php 
 

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