[DB-SIG] How to return results from stored procedures in Oracle

[Gerhard Häring]

* Marcos Sánchez Provencio <msanchez@grupoburke.com> [2002-08-31 12:40 +0200]:
> Hello there.
> 
> In TSQL (the procedural language used in Sybase and MSSQL) it is very
> simple to return rows from a procedure and use it as a query issued by
> the user dinamically. I have managed to do get the same effect in
> ADO/VB using a rather contrived mechanism which involved putting the
> procedure in a package and returning some type (cursor, I think).

Cool - I have to keep in mind that this is possible for Oracle, too. I'm
in a project where we just write in a table (not even temporary) that
has the necessary fields, plus a SESSIONID field. I do the following,
then:

1) call stored procedure
2) select from table where sessionid = userenv('sessionid')
3) delete from table where sessionid = userenv('sessionid')

> How can I get it using DBAPI in Oracle? How about PostgreSQL?

http://developer.postgresql.org/docs/postgres/plpgsql-cursors.html -
22.7.3.3. Returning Cursors.

It's currently not so easy in pyPgSQL, but I plan to introduce a little
magic for pyPgSQL 3.0:

http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=1911314

Gerhard
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