Re: Do Stored Procedures exist (Besides FUNCTIONs)

I guess I should have made this two questions . . . . I got your answers
(On the TODO list). I was wondering if that was true for both issues:

1. ability to call a function (Like a store procedure call) ?

2. Ability to return multiple values ?

Are both of these on the TODO list ?.

"Josh Berkus"
<josh(at)agliodb To: "Art Nicewick" <art(dot)nicewick(at)ams(dot)com>, Masse Jacques
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03/04/02 Subject: Re: [NOVICE] Do Stored Procedures exist (Besides
03:11 PM FUNCTIONs)

Art,

> It seems the all the discussions in the ORACLE TO PGSQL port document
> are
> all about converting FUNCTIONs to FUNCTIONs, Procedures to FUNCTIONs.
> What
> about application that already return multiple parameters from a
> stored
> procedure.

This is an area currently under development for PostgreSQL. There is
some limited ability to return recordsets from Postgres using cursor
and/or Record objects. However, I do not know that this is yet
documented, as the functionality was just added for 7.2.

Overall, stored procedures like you describe remain on the "To Do"
list.

-Josh Brkus