Re: [GENERAL] Stored function debugging help

2011-11-28 Thread John R Pierce
On 11/28/11 4:36 AM, JavaNoobie wrote: Well I'm not fond of using a temporary table either. But how would I be able to iterate over a set of consumers while using a join ? From my (limited) , using only a join I would only be able to generate the data for a particular consumer , rather than all o

Re: [GENERAL] Stored function debugging help

2011-11-28 Thread Alban Hertroys
On 28 November 2011 13:36, JavaNoobie wrote: > Well I'm not fond of using a temporary table either. But how would I be able > to iterate over a set of consumers while using a join ? From my (limited) , > using only a join I would only be able to generate the data for a particular > consumer , rath

Re: [GENERAL] Stored function debugging help

2011-11-28 Thread JavaNoobie
Well I'm not fond of using a temporary table either. But how would I be able to iterate over a set of consumers while using a join ? From my (limited) , using only a join I would only be able to generate the data for a particular consumer , rather than all of them. -- View this message in context

Re: [GENERAL] Stored function debugging help

2011-11-28 Thread John R Pierce
On 11/28/11 1:30 AM, JavaNoobie wrote: 1) Get a list of all the consumers and store their id's stored in a temp table. 2) Iterate over a particular table and retrieve values corresponding to each value from the above list and store in a temp table. 3)Return the temp table. couldn't that all be

[GENERAL] Stored function debugging help

2011-11-28 Thread JavaNoobie
Hi All , Im new to writing stored functions in postgresql and in general . I'm trying to write onw with an input parameter and return a set of results stored in a temporary table. I do the following in my function . 1) Get a list of all the consumers and store their id's stored in a temp table. 2)