Mark, Instead of RETURN NEXT rec.txt1; RETURN NEXT rec.txt2; just use RETURN NEXT rec;
then your select statement would be select * from my_func() as (txt1 text,txt2 text); Jim ---------- Original Message ----------- From: "Mark R. Dingee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org Sent: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 11:49:21 -0400 Subject: [SQL] Multi-column returns from pgsql > Hi Everyone, > > Does anyone know if/how it's possible to return multi-column sets from a > pgsql > function? Right now I'm using something like the following as a work around > > CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION my_func() returns SETOF TEXT AS ' > DECLARE > rec record; > BEGIN > FOR rec IN SELECT txt1, txt2 FROM mytable LOOP > RETURN NEXT rec.txt1; > RETURN NEXT rec.txt2; > END LOOP; > RETURN; > END;' language 'plpgsql'; > > which leaves me parsing multiple records to achieve the desired end result. > > Anyone have any thoughts? > > Thanks, > Mark > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to > choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not > match ------- End of Original Message ------- ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org