| From: | "Daniel Caune" <daniel(dot)caune(at)ubisoft(dot)com> |
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| To: | "Owen Jacobson" <ojacobson(at)osl(dot)com>, <pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: OUT parameter |
| Date: | 2006-03-23 19:20:26 |
| Message-ID: | 1E293D3FF63A3740B10AD5AAD88535D201D9F9FA@UBIMAIL1.ubisoft.org |
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> > "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
Funny! I started that thread on OUT parameter; that's a kind of
circle... :-)
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