pgTcl and Refcursors

Started by Philip A. Chapmanover 21 years ago2 messagesgeneral
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#1Philip A. Chapman
pchapman@pcsw.us

Everyone,

I am about to begin a project which will use Java (JDBC) and postgresql.
In most Java projects, I do not embed SQL code, but create functions
which have the SQL logic. I call the functions from within my Java
code. For selects, the functions return refcursors, which the Java code
can get results from.

However, a seperate team is going to be using Tcl to do some rapid
prototyping. I would rather re-use as much of their work as possible.
If they also put all their SQL logic into functions, I can make my code
call the same functions. The question is, can Tcl process a resultset
provided as a refcursor by a function? I am not very familiar with Tcl,
and a scan of the PostgreSQL documentation's pgTcl section didn't seem
to provide an answer (at least to me).

Any help you provide would be appreciated.

Thanks,
--
Philip A. Chapman

Application Development:
Java, Visual Basic (MCP), PostgreSQL, MySQL, MSSQL
Linux, Windows 9x, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP

#2Tom Lane
tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us
In reply to: Philip A. Chapman (#1)
Re: pgTcl and Refcursors

"Philip A. Chapman" <pchapman@pcsw.us> writes:

The question is, can Tcl process a resultset
provided as a refcursor by a function?

Sure, just issue a FETCH command with the cursor name.

regards, tom lane