On Tuesday 23 March 2004 02:16, Gregory S. Williamson wrote: > I am having an impossible time porting some simple Stored Procedures from > Informix to postgres. The documentation is almost self defeating. > > Are there any better descriptions of how to define functions that return > several tuples to a wide variety of calling programs (e.g. I can't count on > my users running the psql command line tool, but rather coldfusion, jsp > etc.) ?
You might want to look at the "Set Returning Functions" at the techdocs site: http://techdocs.postgresql.org Most of your problems are down to quoting issues and misleading error statements. -- Richard Huxton Archonet Ltd ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match