Re: Brio returning data through stored procedures.

I saw it in the docs which I thought was encouraging but I can't see to
get it to do what I want.

We have a metadata engine that we wrote. It is a layer above our
warehouse. A feature of it is that it writes queries for our users, ETL,
etc.

We have a procedure that constructs the (sometimes quite complex) query
and opens it as a cursor and returns it to Brio. Brio, through ODBC,
then pulls all the results out of the cursor and we're done.

So I would be doing something like:

--Do the thing that builds the query.
Select query
  Into query-string
  From table-that-has-query;

Open cursor for query-string;

Return cursor;
--End pseudo code

In Oracle this is done with a ref cursor but maybe not in PG. I note
there is a function type called 'sql' rather than 'plpgsql' and I'm
trying that out.

If this triggers any other thoughts from anyone please share.

Thanks again for the help.

-Doug

-----Original Message-----
From: David Gardner [mailto:david.gardner@yucaipaco.com]
Sent: Friday, April 06, 2007 12:16 PM
To: Doug Thom; pgsql-odbc@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [ODBC] Brio returning data through stored procedures.

Hmm are you doing something like:
IF something THEN
    SELECT * FROM tblOne;
ELSE
    SELECT * FROM tblTwo;

Not sure what a refcursor is, but it is mentioned in the docs:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/interactive/plpgsql-cursors.html


Doug Thom wrote:
> Hello, David, Andreas,
>
> Thank you for the suggestions. The challenge is that I need a ref
cursor
> because it is some arbitrary amount of data coming back from the
server
> in a cursor. Your suggestion shows a defined row but I do not know
what
> the row looks like so I cannot define a type beforehand.
>
> However, your comments have me wondering if there is a different route
I
> can take. Is there anything that is a 'generic row of data'? I see the
> type "record" and I'm going to give that a try.
>
> Thanks again for the prompt response and ideas!
>
> -Doug
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andreas [mailto:maps.on@gmx.net]
> Sent: Friday, April 06, 2007 9:50 AM
> To: pgsql-odbc@postgresql.org
> Cc: Doug Thom
> Subject: Re: [ODBC] Brio returning data through stored procedures.
>
> Hi Doug
>
> I dont know Brio either but keep in mind that tables and views are
> allready defined types which you could use here.
>
> So if your procedure just selects a few rows from a view or table but
> should return all collumns from the source you don't have to define a
> return type.
>
>
> David Gardner schrieb:
>> Never worked with Brio, but have you defined a data-type in pgsql
that
>
>> your function would be returning? Something like:
>>
>> CREATE TYPE "myType" AS
>> ("name" text,
>> "start" timestamp without time zone,
>> "end" timestamp without time zone,
>> error text);
>> ALTER TYPE "myType" OWNER TO "me";
>>
>> then the function definition would start off like:
>> CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION "getData"()
>> RETURNS SETOF "myType" AS
>> .....
>
>
>
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