Re: SETOF (was: Function example returning more then 1

From: Darko Prenosil <darko(dot)prenosil(at)finteh(dot)hr>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: SETOF (was: Function example returning more then 1
Date: 2003-02-27 18:09:08
Message-ID: 200302271809.08204.darko.prenosil@finteh.hr
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On Thursday 27 February 2003 13:56, Kolus Maximiliano wrote:
> > You can't return more than one return value from function, but that
> > value can be of composite type.For example :"setof text" or "setof
> > record" are such types.
>
> Can you use functions returning "setof"s as if they were "normal"
> selects?.
>
> I saw that setof takes a type or table as an argument. What if what
> i want to return is not in a table schema, can i do something like "setof
> (blah inet, blah2 varchar(256))"?

SETOF RECORD as shown at :
http://developer.postgresql.org/docs/postgres/sql-select.html

or custom declared composite type:
http://developer.postgresql.org/docs/postgres/sql-createtype.html

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