Re: COnsidering a move away from Postgres

HI

On Thursday 30 June 2005 9:20 am, Tom Lane wrote:
> Jason Tesser <jtesser(at)nbbc(dot)edu> writes:
> > 1. Our dev plan involves alot of stored procedures to be used and we have
> > found the way this is done in PG to be painful. (ie. To return multiple
> > record from different tables you have to define a type.
>
> FWIW, this won't be essential any more in 8.1. See the examples in the
> development documentation:
> http://developer.postgresql.org/docs/postgres/xfunc-sql.html#XFUNC-OUTPUT-P
>ARAMETERS
> http://developer.postgresql.org/docs/postgres/plpgsql-declarations.html#PLP
>GSQL-DECLARATION-ALIASES
> http://developer.postgresql.org/docs/postgres/plpgsql-control-structures.ht
>ml#PLPGSQL-STATEMENTS-RETURNING

I might be missing it but how does this help me. What I would like is to be
able to return multiple records from a select statement that return multiple
columns from different tables without having to create a type. This is why
it is painful for us. The management of types is bad because as far as I
know there is no alter type and the depencies become a nightmane if you ever
need to change something.

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Jason Tesser
Developer for NMI
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