Jason Tan wrote:
> Is it possible to use recursion in pl/pgsql in particular with postgres
> 7.0xx?
I hope I can tell you within a few days, as I need this too :-)
> Also is it posible to declare and use array in plpgsql?
Yeps, "SETOF" is your friend.
> Is it possible to somehow return a series of values?
Yeps try "RETURNS SETOF INTEGER" to define an area of integers as a return
value from a function.
> eg to return muliple values somehow so that they can be used in somethign
> like:
> select column_name from table_name where attribute_name in (select
> my_func(column2) from table2);
>
> ie so you can effectively use a function as a filter?
Yeps, this works perfectly, like this :
SELECT a, b FROM c WHERE a.id IN (SELECT fn_return_setof());
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