Re: Function Returning SETOF Problem

Stephan Szabo wrote:

>On Wed, 17 Dec 2003, Ron St-Pierre wrote:
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>>On a daily basis I place a lot of data into the empty table dailyList,
>>and from that data update certain fields in currentList. I thought that
>>using a function would be a good way to do this(?). However I get the
>>following error when I run updateCurrentData():
>>   ERROR:  set-valued function called in context that cannot accept a set
>>   CONTEXT:  PL/pgSQL function "updatecurrentcata" line 6 at return next
>>I've googled and tried variations on the function, but without success.
>>Can anyone help?
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>This probably means that you're calling it like:
> select updateCurrentData();
>and you'll need to instead call it with the function in the FROM clause,
>something like:
> select * from updateCurrentData();
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aha, that's part of it. I now get this error:
   ERROR:  wrong record type supplied in RETURN NEXT
Any ideas on this one?

TIA
Ron