On 11/07/2010 08:53 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
Andreas Kretschmer<akretsch...@spamfence.net>  writes:
Scott Serr<se...@theserrs.net>  wrote:
Ideas on how to uniquely name the first and second set of "perc,
entry_date"?
You can use alias-names for the 2 queries, like:
test=*# select foobar.a as x, foobar.b as y, bar.* from (select * from foo()) 
foobar, (select * from foo()) bar ;
You don't really need the sub-selects: you can put aliases on functions
in FROM.

        select * from foo(...) as f1(a,b), foo(...) as f2(x,y);

                        regards, tom lane


Thanks Tom, Andreas, and Osvaldo...

I've found I really need these on the Select part rather than the From.

select otherstuff.*, foo(...) as f1(a,b), foo(...) as f2(x,y) from otherstuff;
...won't work.  It says:
     subquery must return only one column

Funny thing is
   select (foo(...)).*, (foo(...)).*;
...works fine, just has duplicate column names, so they are hard to get at.

I modeled this after examples here http://www.postgresonline.com/journal/index.php?/archives/129-Use-of-OUT-and-INOUT-Parameters.html

I really only want a single record back from my function, but the multi-record return looked easier. I need some kind of control of how the columns are named per call.

Maybe this isn't possible...  not alot of docs in this area.

Thanks,
Scott



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