On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 04:51:04PM +1000, Ezequiel Tolnay wrote: > Hi, I wonder if anyone can help me find a solution for this problem. I'm > porting a database from MS SQL Server 2000 to PostgreSQL 8.0.1 (Windows). <snip> > The main problem I see is that the funcitions in PostgreSQL seem to be > always bound to a particular result datatype. Is there a way to > circumvent this? Two solutions I can think of: - Return SETOF RECORD and specify the type on the actual query from the client - Return a cursor reference. Hope this helps, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@xxxxxxxxx> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > Patent. n. Genius is 5% inspiration and 95% perspiration. A patent is a > tool for doing 5% of the work and then sitting around waiting for someone > else to do the other 95% so you can sue them.
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