Re: Return a table from a function

On Tue, 2021-04-06 at 16:52 +0000, Simon Connah wrote:
> I've written a function that returns a table. It works fine and I get the expected results.
> The only problem is that in Node.js which is the client the table data is a string rather
> than a list of variables. Is there some way to change the return data so it is still like
> a table but in something like JSON? Or even better is there a way to return it as the
> individual rows so that each column can be easily accessed? I'm using pg-promise to access
> PostgreSQL from a Node.js web application.

It's a bit unclear what you are doing, but I guess you should run

SELECT * FROM myfunction('arg');

rather than

SELECT myfunction('arg');

Yours,
Laurenz Albe
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