Folks,
Please find attached an example that allows people to return multiple
named refcursors from a function. Big kudos to Kris Jurka for
figuring this out and pasting to rafb :)
Cheers,
D
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COMMIT;
</programlisting>
</para>
+
+ <para>
+ The following example lets you return multiple cursors from a
+ single function.
+
+ <programlisting>
+ CREATE TYPE multref AS (a refcursor, b refcursor);
+
+ CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION myfunc(result multref)
+ RETURNS multref
+ LANGUAGE plpgsql
+ AS $$
+ BEGIN
+ OPEN result.a FOR SELECT 1;
+ OPEN result.b FOR SELECT 2;
+ RETURN result;
+ END;
+ $$;
+
+ -- need to be in a transaction to use cursors.
+ BEGIN;
+
+ SELECT * FROM myfunc(ROW('a', 'b'));
+
+ FETCH ALL FROM a;
+ FETCH ALL FROM b;
+ </programlisting>
+ </para>
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