help w/ SRF function

From: Ow Mun Heng <Ow(dot)Mun(dot)Heng(at)wdc(dot)com>
To: Postgres General <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: help w/ SRF function
Date: 2007-09-17 01:21:22
Message-ID: 1189992082.14185.17.camel@neuromancer.home.net
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Hi,

I want to use a SRF to return multi rows.

current SRF is pretty static.

create type foo_type as (
id smallint
data1 int
data2 int
)

CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION foo_func()
RETURNS SETOF foo AS
$BODY$
SELECT
TRH.ID,
TRH.data1,
TRH.data2,
FROM D
INNER JOIN TS
ON TS.id = D.id
inner join TRH
on ts.id = trh.id
WHERE D.start_timestamp BETWEEN '8/1/2007' AND '9/8/2007'
And D.code IN ('ID_123')
$BODY$
LANGUAGE 'sql' IMMUTABLE STRICT;

I would like for the above to be a little bit more dynamic in that the
start_timestamp and the code can be input-fields.

eg:

CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION foo_func(fromdate timestamp, todate
timestamp, code text)
RETURNS SETOF foo AS
$BODY$
SELECT
TRH.ID,
TRH.data1,
TRH.data2,
FROM D
INNER JOIN TS
ON TS.id = D.id
inner join TRH
on ts.id = trh.id
WHERE D.start_timestamp BETWEEN fromdate AND todate
And D.code IN (code)
$BODY$
LANGUAGE 'sql' IMMUTABLE STRICT;

How can I go about this this? The above will fail due to missing columns
fromdate/todate/code.

Or should I use plpgsql as SQL cannot handle variable substitution?

What about doing dynamic SQL eg:

Dsql = select X,Y,Z from foo, join bar on bar.a = foo.a
where D.start_timestamp between ' || fromdate ||' and ' ||
todate||'

execute DSQL

Thanks for any/all help.

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