Re: [GENERAL] Return SETOF or array from pl/python

2005-07-15 Thread Peter Fein
Joshua D. Drake wrote: > Somebody may know of a better way but what I would think would happen is > this: > > Break up list, insert each value of list into a temp table as a row, > return set of temp table. Ok. I tried this & ran in to some trouble: CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION setret(text) RETU

Re: [GENERAL] Return SETOF or array from pl/python

2005-07-15 Thread Peter Fein
Joshua D. Drake wrote: > You would actually have to have a set. What I believe you are trying to > do is transform a list to a result set. I don't think you can do that > without some additional programming within the function. > > Somebody may know of a better way but what I would think would ha

Re: [GENERAL] Return SETOF or array from pl/python

2005-07-15 Thread Joshua D. Drake
I am not an everyday python programmer but I am pretty sure that you are trying to return a list in arf(). You can't return a list you have to return the array type which is why arf2 works. Ok. How does one convert a python list to a PGSql array then? Is there a better way to do it than wh

Re: [GENERAL] Return SETOF or array from pl/python

2005-07-15 Thread Peter Fein
Joshua D. Drake wrote: > Peter Fein wrote: > >> Is it possible to return a SETOF text or a text[] from pl/python? >> >> I've got the following test cases: >> >> CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION arf() >> RETURNS text[] LANGUAGE plpythonu AS >> $$return ["one", "two", "three"]$$; >> >> SELECT arf(); >> >>

Re: [GENERAL] Return SETOF or array from pl/python

2005-07-15 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Peter Fein wrote: Is it possible to return a SETOF text or a text[] from pl/python? I've got the following test cases: CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION arf() RETURNS text[] LANGUAGE plpythonu AS $$return ["one", "two", "three"]$$; SELECT arf(); ERROR: missing dimension value CREATE OR REPLACE FUN

[GENERAL] Return SETOF or array from pl/python

2005-07-15 Thread Peter Fein
Is it possible to return a SETOF text or a text[] from pl/python? I've got the following test cases: CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION arf() RETURNS text[] LANGUAGE plpythonu AS $$return ["one", "two", "three"]$$; SELECT arf(); ERROR: missing dimension value CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION arf2() RETURNS