On 9/29/05, Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tony Caduto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Please don't take this the wrong way, but don't you think even if a > > single param is declared as OUT it should return the name of the OUT param? > > Not really, because "create function foo (in x int, out y float)" is > supposed to have the same external behavior as "create function foo > (in x int) returns float". I agree it's a bit of a judgment call, but > I do not see a case for changing it. >
Just my $0.02, but that seems inconsistent. In my mind, the difference between functions with OUT params and functions that return a RECORD (or a specific rowtype) is syntactic sugar. I'm pretty sure that this was used to explain the implementation when it was being discussed, in fact. Using that logic, a functions with one OUT param would be the same as a function returning a rowtype with only one column, and the one column in such a rowtype certainly has a name of it's own. -- Mike Rylander [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPLS -- PINES Development Database Developer http://open-ils.org ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly