Re: Function that creates a custom (temporary) table AND returns a pointer to it = impossible in pg?

Thank you for the link Andreas. It was helpfull, but still not quite what I
need.

Regards,
Davor

""A. Kretschmer"" <andreas(dot)kretschmer(at)schollglas(dot)com> wrote in message
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> In response to Davor J. :
>> What I want is something similar to this:
>>
>>
>> Basically, what I want is a similar function f() that returns me a
>> "pointer"
>> to the table which I can use in some query like this: SELECT * FROM
>> regclass(f()); Currently, this query only gives me one row 'tbl_temp'...,
>> but not what I want: "SELECT * FROM tbl_temp;" Can this be done in
>> Postgres?
>
> Take a look at
> http://okbob.blogspot.com/2008/08/using-cursors-for-generating-cross.html
>
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