Re: functions vs stored procedures

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Ezequiel Tolnay <mail(at)etolnay(dot)com(dot)ar>
Cc: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: functions vs stored procedures
Date: 2005-07-14 13:17:05
Message-ID: 14063.1121347025@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Ezequiel Tolnay <mail(at)etolnay(dot)com(dot)ar> writes:
> I just can't get used to the annoyance of having to create a type for
> every single function that returns a rowset. It is frankly cumbersome.

Yup. See coming attractions at, eg,
http://developer.postgresql.org/docs/postgres/xfunc-sql.html#XFUNC-OUTPUT-PARAMETERS
http://developer.postgresql.org/docs/postgres/plpgsql-declarations.html#PLPGSQL-DECLARATION-ALIASES

regards, tom lane

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