On Mar 4, 2012, at 14:52, Jan Meyland Andersen <j...@agile.dk> wrote:

> How do I return an unknown resultset from a function
> 
> My main problem is that I do not know how many columns or the data type of 
> the columns before runtime.
> It this possible at all?
> 
> I also tried to return the data as a text array but I also have trouble with 
> that.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Jan
> 


Try HSTORE.

You can return RECORD from the function but the SQL user still has to define 
the names/types at design time.

Text array should work but you lose column names which HSTORE maintains.

You could also return a delimited string and then split it in the calling 
routine.

David J


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