How to return multiple rows from the stored procedure? (Oracle PL/SQL)

Question

I want to create a stored procedure with one argument which will return different sets of records depending on the argument. What is the way to do this? Can I call it from p

Answer 1

If you want to use it in plain SQL, I would let the store procedure fill a table or temp table with the resulting rows (or go for @Tony Andrews approach).
If you want to use @Thilo's solution, you have to loop the cursor using PL/SQL. Here an example: (I used a procedure instead of a function, like @Thilo did)

create or replace procedure myprocedure(retval in out sys_refcursor) is
begin
  open retval for
    select TABLE_NAME from user_tables;
end myprocedure;

 declare 
   myrefcur sys_refcursor;
   tablename user_tables.TABLE_NAME%type;
 begin
   myprocedure(myrefcur);
   loop
     fetch myrefcur into tablename;
     exit when myrefcur%notfound;
     dbms_output.put_line(tablename);
   end loop;
   close myrefcur;
 end;