On Jun 25, 2007, at 17:05, Michael Glaesemann wrote:
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Wasn't aware of this. Will do.
I should obtain a better mail client.
>However, it looks like you're trying to return a set of results
>(i.e., many rows), rather than just a single row. You'll want to look
>at set returning functions. One approach (probably not the best)
>would be to expand p_line into all of the possible v_search items and
>append that to your query, which would look something like:
Thank you for your help. All the advice was very useful and I have now a
working function.
I still have an issue left: I would like my function to return multiple
values (as in columns of a row).
Actually I found two possibilities: array and record. I ended up using
arrays since I couldn't figure out how to access the record data from
outside the function. Nevertheless I think a solution based on returning a
record type when you actually want to return the whole row would be more
elegant.
For example:
CREATE TABLE table1 ( field1 text, field2 text, field3 text
);
INSERT INTO table1 ('data1', 'data2', 'data3');
CREATE FUNCTION my_func() RETURNS record AS
$body$
DECLARE v_row table1%ROWTYPE;
BEGIN
SELECT * INTO v_row FROM table1 WHERE <condition> ;
IF FOUND THEN RETURN v_row; END IF;
RETURN NULL;
END;
$body$
LANGUAGE 'plpgsql';
SELECT my_func(); my_func
---------------------------------------------------
(data1, data2, data3)
How do I refer a specific field of the returned row from outside the
function? How should I write the query in order to show only fields 1 and 3,
for example?
It's sad to bother with this syntax questions, but I've had a hard time
finding code examples online.
Regards,
Fernando.