Re: How to return a record set from function.

On Wednesday 27 August 2003 08:18, Kumar wrote:
> Dear Friends,
>
> I am newbie to Postgres. I am running 7.3.4 on Linux 7.3. I am using
> Pgadmin tool. I need to return the table rows via record set.
>
> Create table t1 (c1 int, c2 varchar, c3 varchar);
>
> Create or Replace function sel_t1 () returns setof records as '
> select c1, c2, c3 from t1;
> ' Language SQL;
>
> It was fine and created a function. while i execute it as
>
> select sel_t1;
>
> I got the following error.
>
> ERROR: Cannot display a value of type RECORD

You probably want to return "setof t1" and then do:

SELECT * FROM sel_t1();

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