Re: plpgsql: returning multiple named columns from function

CREATE PROCEDURE test(

>  @lookup char(50))
> WITH ENCRYPTION AS BEGIN
>
> -- ... a bunch of code to do some lookup, and then ...
>
> SELECT
>   @Result1 AS Result1,
>   @Result2 AS Result2,
>   @Result3 AS Result3,
>   @Result4 AS Result4
>
> END
> GO
>
> and then when I call this procedure, I get a result row (like it came
> from a SELECT on a table) which has the columns neatly labeled with
> 'Result1', 'Result2', etc.  Note that these column labels are rather
> arbitrary and not necessarily associated with a single table or
> perhaps even any existing column in a table.

I think what you are looking for is SetOF functions.

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/interactive/functions-srf.html