Re: returning multiple result sets from a stored procedure

2010/9/4 Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@gmail.com>:
> On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 4:07 PM, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I noticed in postgres you cannot return multiple result sets from a
>>> stored procedure (surprisingly as it looks like a very good dbms).
>>
>> That feature has been on the TODO list for years.  However, nobody has
>> stepped forward to either write it, or to fund working on it.  If your
>> company has programmers or money to build this feature, it could
>> probably get done fairly quickly (as in, next version).
>
> Also as mentioned upthread there are effective workarounds if you poke
> around a bit.  This is a FAQ, and there are about 3-4 solid methods
> (if you search the archives) that cover most problems you would be
> looking at multiple results sets to solve.  I suppose this is why
> there hasn't been more of an effort to do this earlier.  People asking
> for this are typically dispossessed SQL server developers who haven't
> quite gotten used to the postgres way of things. Not that proper
> stored procedures wouldn't be great -- they would be -- but they are
> not the only way to solve these types of problems.

I had a prototype that can do multirecordset. But implementation of
non transact procedures needs a hundreds  hours of work:

* outer SPI
* parametrization for non planner statements - for CALL statement
* explicit transaction control for procedures.
* client API support for multirecordset
* better support for OUT variables.

Regards

Pavel Stehule
>
> merlin
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