Re: Return rows from function with expressions

[Ragnar <gnari(at)hive(dot)is>]

On fim, 2007-05-24 at 13:59 -0700, novnov wrote:
> I've written many stored procedures in ms sql and a good many functions in
> postgres, but I'm rather unsure of how to get a list back from a postgres
> function which is not based on a table. Example from sql server:
> 
> set ANSI_NULLS ON
> set QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON
> GO
> ALTER PROCEDURE [dbo].[procPatient] 
> 	@PatStatusID int = 0 
> AS
> BEGIN
> 	SELECT PatID, PatFName + ' ' + PatLName as pname  FROM tblPatient WHERE
> PatStatusID = @PatStatusID
> END
> 
> Output from the sproc above is like 
> PatID  pname
> 123    Merton Baffled
> 129    Jim Puzzled

test=# create table pats (patid int, patfname text, patlname text,
patstatus int);
CREATE TABLE

test=# insert into pats values (123,'Merton','Baffled',2);
INSERT 0 1
test=# insert into pats values (129,'Jim','Puzzled',2);
INSERT 0 1
test=# insert into pats values (132,'Joe','Confused',1);
INSERT 0 1

test=# create type patrec as (patid int, patname text);
CREATE TYPE

test=# create or replace function getpats(int) returns setof patrec as
$$ select patid,patfname|| ' ' || patlname from pats where patstatus=$1
$$ language SQL;
CREATE FUNCTION

test=# select * from getpats(2);
 patid |    patname     
-------+----------------
   123 | Merton Baffled
   129 | Jim Puzzled
(2 rows)

hope this helps
gnari