Hi,

Le 7 mars 09 à 02:44, Josh Berkus a écrit :
Thing is, anybody can institute their own naming convention. I've long used v_ as a prefix. Allowing : would save me some keystrokes, but that's about it.

What I usually do in those cases is abusing the ALIAS option of DECLARE (because as mentioned somewhere else in this thread, you generally don't want to have that ugly OUT parameters, you want a nice API) :

CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION test_out
 (
  IN  a integer,
  IN  b integer,
  OUT s integer
 )
 RETURNS setof integer
 LANGUAGE PLPGSQL
AS $f$
DECLARE
  v_s ALIAS FOR $3;
BEGIN
  FOR v_s IN SELECT generate_series(a, b)
  LOOP
    v_s := v_s * v_s;
    RETURN NEXT;
  END LOOP;
  RETURN;
END;
$f$;

CREATE FUNCTION
dim=# SELECT * FROM test_out(2, 4);
 s
----
  4
  9
 16
(3 rows)

I'd sure be happy not having to do it explicitly, but schema-style prefixing has the drawback of needing to avoid any user defined schema. Maybe pg_plout would do?

Regards,
--
dim




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