I resend this post because I can't find any answer for this... I try and try but can't find how to do this. ------------- Hi all! I'm new on postgres stuffs... I'm trying to create several functions to encapsulate "bussines procedures"... actually I need to return a cursor to php, and these cursor will be returned by stored procedure in pg/plsql. This is the "head" of function: -------------- create or replace function match(refcursor,int8) returns refcursor as ' DECLARE vid ALIAS FOR $2; vcursor ALIAS FOR $1; BEGIN (...) return vcursor; (...) -------------- And this is php call: -------------- $conn = pg_pconnect ($conn_string); $qry = "BEGIN; SELECT matche('cursorsalida',$identificador); fetch all in cursorsalida; "; $result = pg_query ($conn, $qry); $num = pg_num_rows($result); for ($i=0; $i < $num; $i++) { $r = pg_fetch_row($result, $i); (...) --------------- The problem with this is than I need to pass the cursor to the function... when I try to create a function who doesn't receive a "refcursor" (only "return" the refcursor), I can't use the cursor! I think I'm not doing this in the best way... actually this works fine, but I don't want to pass by parameter a cursor... Thanks in advance! -- Fernando O. Papa