| From: | "Owen Jacobson" <ojacobson(at)osl(dot)com> |
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| To: | <pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: OUT parameter |
| Date: | 2006-03-23 17:12:32 |
| Message-ID: | 144D12D7DD4EC04F99241498BB4EEDCC25EBAD@nelson.osl.com |
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Tom Lane wrote:
> "Owen Jacobson" <ojacobson(at)osl(dot)com> writes:
> > I'd say there's no problem with this, PROVIDED you can ensure you'll
> > never abort before completing the computation.
>
> Not really an issue in Postgres: we do not support pass-by-reference
> parameters and are unlikely to start doing so. There isn't any way
> that you can affect locals of a calling procedure before you return.
Then I've misunderstood the semantics of OUT and more importantly INOUT parameters. Thanks for the correction; I'm reading Daniel Caune's notes on the docs now.
-Owen
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