> > "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
Funny! I started that thread on OUT parameter; that's a kind of
circle... :-)
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