On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 9:29 PM, Dimitri Fontaine <dfonta...@hi-media.com>wrote:
> In fact, maybe a new option to set the OUT parameters prefix to use from > within the function body would do? > > Le 7 mars 09 à 19:56, Dimitri Fontaine a écrit : > >> CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION test_out >> ( >> IN a integer, >> IN b integer, >> OUT s integer >> ) >> RETURNS setof integer >> > > SET out_prefix TO 'v_' > > LANGUAGE PLPGSQL >> AS $f$ >> > That's what we also would like to have. In addition it should also make out parameters unusable without that prefix. Then we could make it our coding standard and feel relatively safe again. > >> Those two following lines would be deprecated: > > > 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) >> > > -- > dim > >
