Re: PL/pgSQL and SETOF

Pavel Stehule escribió:
> On 30/11/2007, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org> wrote:
> > Pavel Stehule escribió:
> > > On 30/11/2007, Cultural Sublimation <cultural_sublimation(at)yahoo(dot)com> wrote:
> >
> > > > But still on that subject: is my version of get_items2 the simplest
> > > > that is possible in PL/pgSQL? It seems awfully verbose compared to
> > > > the SQL version...
> > >
> > > no. Your simplest version is historic relict and is available only in
> > > sql language. I am not sure, maybe in C language too.
> >
> > But isn't the case that on 8.3 you would be able to rewrite it more
> > easily using RETURN QUERY?
>
> yes. sure. But it is different question than call SRF function in
> normal context.

Hmm, you are misunderstanding Cultural or I am. I think his verbosity
comment is not about the way the function is called, but rather about
the function body itself.

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