Re: SRFs returning records from a view

AAARRRGGGHHH... Now I understand you, Josh. Sorry.

You are correct.

Thanks!
Mark

On Jun 1, 2005, at 4:39 PM, Joshua D. Drake wrote:

> mark(dot)lubratt(at)indeq(dot)com wrote:
>> Hello!
>> I have a view that I'm putting into a report in my application. I'd
>> like to get several blank lines returned by the view as well as the
>> legitimate data (to leave room in the report for manual entries). I
>> thought I could make a SRF that would return the data from the view
>> and
>> then spit out a number of blank records.
>> As a first step in getting my SRF feet wet, I tried:
>> CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION bluecard(int4)
>> RETURNS SETOF view_bluecard AS
>> $BODY$declare
>> r view_bluecard%rowtype;
>> begin
>> for r in select * from view_bluecard where job_id = jn loop
>> return next r;
>> end loop;
>> return;
>> end;$BODY$
>> LANGUAGE 'plpgsql' VOLATILE;
>> where view_bluecard is the view that is already defined. When I try
>> select bluecard(1130);
>
> select * from bluecard(1130)?
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Joshua D. Drake
>
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