Re: Proposal: real procedures again (8.4)

2007/10/29, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>:
> Gregory Stark wrote:
> > "Hannu Krosing" <hannu(at)skype(dot)net> writes:
> >
> > > What I was referring to, was a "code cleanup" of libpq several years
> > > ago, when someone (maybe Bruce IIRC) removed ability to accept multiple
> > > recordsets from backend altogether, on the basis that it is not used
> > > anyway.
> >
> > You can still receive multiple record sets just fine using libpq. psql doesn't
> > handle them but they're there. When I was doing the concurrent psql patch I
> > also had it handling multiple record sets.
> >
> > Something else you may be thinking of, I don't think it's legal to do queries
> > like "select 1 ; select 2" in the new protocol. That was legal in the old
> > protocol.
>
> I think the cool thing that Josh Berkus wants is
>
> return query select a, b, c from foo;
> return query select d, e, f from bar;
>

maybe better

SELECT a,b FROM foo;
SELECT d, e FROM bar;

procedure doesn't need return statement usually