X-Original-To: pgsql-docs-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org Received: from localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B22A29DCAD1 for ; Mon, 12 Dec 2005 12:28:06 -0400 (AST) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 64122-06 for ; Mon, 12 Dec 2005 12:28:05 -0400 (AST) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey- Received: from hoster906.com (hoster906.com [66.211.137.23]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C33A9DCAA1 for ; Mon, 12 Dec 2005 12:28:04 -0400 (AST) Received: (qmail 18696 invoked by uid 503); 12 Dec 2005 16:28:02 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.1.65?) (ajs011669ajs@221.128.99.223) by hoster906.com with SMTP; 12 Dec 2005 16:28:02 -0000 Message-ID: <439DA513.80402@vectorsalad.com> Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 23:28:03 +0700 From: Tony S User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051011) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Docs Subject: Doc patch: Porting from Oracle (36.11) OUT INOUT parameters in plpgsql functions Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at hub.org X-Spam-Status: No, score=0 required=5 tests=[none] X-Spam-Score: 0 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200512/24 X-Sequence-Number: 3372 I hope this is the correct place to comment on this. Got major confusion when I was plowing in to using the new OUT and INOUT parameters for plpgsql functions. They are seriously different from the Oracle notion. (Oracle's are pass by reference; Postgres more of a result set column definition) -tony