Обсуждение: returning multiple values and ref cursors

hello, 

I am porting an Oracle stored procedure to plpgsql (pg 7.4.1) that has about 
ten ref cursor OUT parameters, a varchar OUT parameter and returns an 
integer. The varchar is an error/status message, the integer is a 1/0 for 
success/failure. 

What are your thoughts on the best way to approach this? Break up the stored 
proc into ten different stored procs that return ref cursors? 

Thanks, 

Dennis
dennis at calico dash consulting dot com 

Dennis writes: 

> What are your thoughts on the best way to approach this? Break up the 
> stored proc into ten different stored procs that return ref cursors? 

I guess another question here is whether I can return a row type or record 
type with (integer, varchar, refcursor) and then make use of the refcursor 
from JDBC. I'm not the one doing the Java development on this project and 
its been a while since I've used JDBC. 

Tom, Bruce, I still owe you guys a test program that gives the error where 
it looks like the temp schema for the connection is getting destroyed before 
the  connection is closed. 

Dennis