Re: [GENERAL] Dynamic execution returning large result sets

2016-11-07 Thread Emrul
Read up on refcursors - exactly what I wanted, thank you Adrian! -- View this message in context: http://postgresql.nabble.com/Dynamic-execution-returning-large-result-sets-tp5929177p5929211.html Sent from the PostgreSQL - general mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Sent via pgsql-general

Re: [GENERAL] Dynamic execution returning large result sets

2016-11-06 Thread Adrian Klaver
On 11/06/2016 05:12 PM, Emrul wrote: Hi, I have a function that returns an SQL string as follows: CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION t1() RETURNS text AS $$ BEGIN RETURN 'SELECT * FROM mytable'; END $$ LANGUAGE plpgsql; and I want to create a second function (t2) that will execute the string returned b

[GENERAL] Dynamic execution returning large result sets

2016-11-06 Thread Emrul
Hi, I have a function that returns an SQL string as follows: CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION t1() RETURNS text AS $$ BEGIN RETURN 'SELECT * FROM mytable'; END $$ LANGUAGE plpgsql; and I want to create a second function (t2) that will execute the string returned by t1() and return the results. I thoug