On Mon, Oct 1, 2018 at 6:57 PM Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > Jan Kohnert <nospam001-li...@jan-kohnert.de> writes: > > I have a question regarding the new stored procedures in Postgres 11 (I > > tested > > beta4): > > I'd like to know if it is somehow possible to get a (or possibly more) > > result > > set from selects within the SP, as it is possible in MariaDB, MySQL, or SQL > > Server. > > Not there as of v11, other than the refcursor approach you already know > about. We hope to have something nicer worked out for v12. There > are a lot of compatibility issues to sort through :-(
There are a few other ways of dealing with this. If the data being returned isn't very large, you can stuff multiple 'datasets' into a single json. I do this all the time today, with functions. Yet another tactic is to create temp tables (maybe ON COMMIT DROP) and refer to those tables after calling the procedure. I would strongly consider this if the returned data was large and the function/procedure was not called at a high rate (making system catalog thrash in issue). I would probably use these tactics, especially the json style return, even after multi-result style invocation were to drop. merlin
