Re: [GENERAL] return setof and Temp tables

2006-02-17 Thread Robert Treat
On Friday 17 February 2006 00:13, Justin B. Kay wrote: > I have looked around and found that you can use return setof in a > function to return a result set, but can you use a temp table as the > setof target? I build a temp table using various select statements and > then try to return the result

Re: [GENERAL] return setof and Temp tables

2006-02-17 Thread William Leite Araújo
2006/2/17, Justin B. Kay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I have looked around and found that you can use return setof in a function to return a result set, but can you use a temp table as the setof target?   Yes, you can ( PostgreSQL 8.0.6 on i686-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC gcc (GCC) 3.3.5

Re: [GENERAL] return setof and Temp tables

2006-02-16 Thread Tony Caduto
Justin B. Kay wrote: If this is not possible, is there some alternative way to do this? I am trying to translate what was done in a ms sql database. I have done it by returning a ref cursor to the temp table. I believe there are some ref cursor examples in the docs, if you can't find any

[GENERAL] return setof and Temp tables

2006-02-16 Thread Justin B. Kay
I have looked around and found that you can use return setof in a function to return a result set, but can you use a temp table as the setof target?  I build a temp table using various select statements and then try to return the result as a recordset.  I get an error: type t1 does not exis