Oracle Database Discussions

Hi all,
Since view can not have parameters, I tried to used stored procedure to return ref cursor then used TABLE function in select statement to simulate a view with parameters, since it's easy to pass parameters to a stored procedure.

The idea is like this

function foo (p1 int, p2 int)
return sys_ref_cursor
c sys_ref_cursor -- sorry, i forgot the buildin ref cursor name, just used
this as pseudo code
is
open c for select * from table_a where col1=:p1 and col2=p2 using p1, p2;
return c;
end;

select * from table(foo(1,2)) does not work, I know that I can iterate throught
the cursor and pipe it out to a SQL type in function foo, then use TABLE
function in SELECT statement. However, it seems so much coding work. Is it the
only way or do you have better idea?

Thanks in advance.