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authorBruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>2005-06-05 03:16:42 +0000
committerBruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>2005-06-05 03:16:42 +0000
commitbebe7c5600ad750fb52b86ecb083a3f623ba0a99 (patch)
treeef4c1f3094cba0e91f7b93522ca767abab3d319e /doc/src
parent27bdb0c40d1319d82af2b21e10b1e69aef763b82 (diff)
Here's a patch to do the following:
1. Rename spi_return_next to return_next. 2. Add a new test for return_next. 3. Update the expected output. 4. Update the documentation. Abhijit Menon-Sen
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/src')
-rw-r--r--doc/src/sgml/plperl.sgml9
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/plperl.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/plperl.sgml
index 0680c6106e8..c6fdb3bae2b 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/plperl.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/plperl.sgml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
<!--
-$PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/plperl.sgml,v 2.40 2005/05/20 01:52:24 neilc Exp $
+$PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/plperl.sgml,v 2.41 2005/06/05 03:16:29 momjian Exp $
-->
<chapter id="plperl">
@@ -182,8 +182,11 @@ $$ LANGUAGE plperl;
SELECT * FROM perl_set();
</programlisting>
- Note that when you do this, Perl will have to build the entire array in
- memory; therefore the technique does not scale to very large result sets.
+ When you do this, Perl will have to build the entire array in memory;
+ therefore the technique does not scale to very large result sets. You
+ can instead call <function>return_next</function> for each element of
+ the result set, passing it either a scalar or a reference to a hash,
+ as appropriate to your function's return type.
</para>
<para>