Christopher Murtagh

Christopher Murtagh

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Postgresql, plperl and custom rowtypes

Posted on September 14, 2007August 10, 2025 by Christopher
I had a problem that I needed to solve recently, and the most elegant way to do this was with a stored procedure. However, the procedure needed to return 2 columns – an index id and a sort order. One way to tackle this is to have the plperl function called by a wrapping plpgsql […]... Read More

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