Re: Do Stored Procedures exist (Besides FUNCTIONs)

At 12:11 PM 3/4/2002 -0800, Josh Berkus wrote:
>Art,
>
> > It seems the all the discussions in the ORACLE TO PGSQL port document
> >  are
> > all about converting FUNCTIONs to FUNCTIONs, Procedures to FUNCTIONs.
> >  What
> > about application that already return multiple parameters from a
> >  stored
> > procedure.
>
>This is an area currently under development for PostgreSQL.  There is
>  some limited ability to return recordsets from Postgres using cursor
>  and/or Record objects.  However, I do not know that this is yet
>  documented, as the functionality was just added for 7.2.


Cursor and record objects, eh?  What is the return type for those?

/clinton


>Overall, stored procedures like you describe remain on the "To Do"
>  list.
>
>-Josh Brkus
>
>
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