On 8/22/05 9:56 AM, "Nigel Horne" <njh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, 2005-08-22 at 14:49, Tino Wildenhain wrote: >> Nigel Horne schrieb: >>> On Fri, 2005-08-19 at 16:34, A. Kretschmer wrote: >>> >>>> am 19.08.2005, um 15:58:20 +0100 mailte Nigel Horne folgendes: >>>> >>>>> I can't work out from that how to return more than one value. >>>> >>>> 17:35 < rtfm_please> For information about srf >>>> 17:35 < rtfm_please> see >>>> http://techdocs.postgresql.org/guides/SetReturningFunctions >>>> 17:35 < rtfm_please> or >>>> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/xfunc-sql.html#AEN28835 >>> >>> >>> How does that help with my problem? I seems to discuss returning more >>> than one row of a table which is not the question I asked. >>> >> >> try to tell your questions more precisely :-) > > I want to return more than one value from a procedure, e.g. a string and > an integer. > >> I think you want to return a record or tabletype. > > Not really, since those values could be computed on the fly, they may > not be values in a database. Actually, that is what you want. Here is a concrete example: CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION test_return(int,int) RETURNS RECORD AS $$ DECLARE a alias for $1; b alias for $2; ret record; BEGIN select into ret a, b, a+b; RETURN ret; END; $$ language plpgsql; select * from test_return(1,2) as t(a int, b int, s int); a | b | s ---+---+--- 1 | 2 | 3 (1 row) ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend
