Re: function definition documentation

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

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