Re: plpgsql function returning SETOF - Mailing list pgsql-novice

Hello Andreas,
hello novices and experts,

first of all thank you very much for your immediate response! The hint
is great but surprising to me.

"A. Kretschmer" <andreas.kretschmer@schollglas.com> writes:

> am  21.12.2005, um 16:54:43 +0100 mailte Johannes BrXgmann folgendes:
>>
>> I didn't understand how to create a function, which returns a varying
>> number of records. Worse, it seems, that I didn't understand the SETOF
>> feature at all...
>>
>> a result "table" like this is what I want:
>>
>>        bezeichnung     | datum
>>       -----------------+-------
>>        Allerheiligen   | ....
>
> You should return your rows ;-)

Thank you very much!

I always had this in mind:

,----[ ${doc}/postgresql-8.0.3/html/xfunc-sql.html ]
| 31.4.4. SQL Functions Returning Sets
|
| When an SQL function is declared as returning SETOF sometype, the
| function's final SELECT query is executed to completion, and each row
| it outputs is returned as an element of the result set.
`----[ end ]

But this is SQL isn't it, ;-)? And SQL doesn't support timestamp, does
it? (AAaaarrggghhhh...)

A new problem is now, that i still can't get it to work after all:

      CREATE TYPE feiertag AS (bezeichnung VARCHAR(100), datum TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE);

      CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION feiertage(TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE)
      RETURNS SETOF feiertag
      CALLED ON NULL INPUT AS $$
      DECLARE
           in_ts timestamp with time zone;
          curr feiertag%ROWTYPE;
          r RECORD;
      BEGIN
           IF $1 IS NULL
               THEN in_ts := localtimestamp(0);
               ELSE in_ts := $1;
           END IF;

              FOR r IN SELECT f.b AS b, f.d AS d
                       FROM (
                             SELECT 'Allerheiligen             ' AS b, allerheiligen(in_ts)          AS d
                         UNION SELECT 'Aschermittwoch            ' AS b, aschermittwoch(in_ts)          AS d
                             ...
                         UNION SELECT 'Tag der deutschen Einheit ' AS b, tagderdeutscheneinheit(in_ts)  AS d
                         UNION SELECT 'Zweiter Weihnachtstag     ' AS b, zweiterweihnachtstag(in_ts)    AS d) AS f
              LOOP
              curr.bezeichnung := r.b;
              curr.datum       := r.d;
              RETURN NEXT curr;
          END LOOP;
          RETURN;

      END;
      $$ LANGUAGE plpgsql;

Where is the bug now?

Thanks a lot!
Johannes