On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 07:35:57PM -0600, Todd P Marek wrote: > I am curious if there is a way to select and return multiple columns > from multiple tables without having to first create a view.
You could use CREATE TYPE to create a composite type with the desired fields and return SETOF that type. When I do this, I sometimes create the type to contain only keys; if I want additional columns then I join the function results (rows of keys) to the appropriate tables. Depending on why you object to creating a view to get a composite type, you might not want to create a custom type either. The function could return SETOF RECORD, but then queries that use it will have to supply their own column definitions. I prefer to do this only when the return rows don't have a fixed format. -- Michael Fuhr http://www.fuhr.org/~mfuhr/ ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
