From: thhal at mailblocks.com (Thomas Hallgren)
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 13:27:15 +0200
Subject: [Pljava-dev] IN/INOUT/OUT support in PL/JAVA
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Thomas Hallgren wrote:

> Altaf Malik wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>  PL/JAVA 1.1 claims to support IN/INOUT and OUT parameters. Also it 
>> recommends to use PostgreSQL 8.0.2 as a backend database. However i 
>> could not find and support in the PostgreSQL8.0.2. Also there is no 
>> support in the 8.0.2 protocol parse message to indecate if the 
>> parameter is IN/OUT or INOUT.  Am i missing something?
>
>
> The PL/Java announcement claims "The source of this version will 
> compile with the CVS HEAD of the PostgreSQL source (at the time of 
> release date that is) and IN/INOUT/OUT parameters are fully 
> functional.". Perhaps not crystal clear, but what I meant to say with 
> this was that the IN/INOUT/OUT parameters that are functional in CVS 
> HEAD of PostgreSQL are also supported in PL/Java. There's no way you 
> can get it to work using PosgreSQL 8.0.x.

Also, on the front web page of the PL/Java project, it very clearly states:

5. Ability to use IN, INOUT, and OUT parameters (requires not yet 
released PostgreSQL 8.1)

- thomas