Tom Lane wrote: > "Owen Jacobson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings