On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 10:03:33AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > Neil Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Or are you talking about non-scalar OUT params? > > Exactly. I agree that a procedure has no "return value" per se, > but we need to be able to support OUT params that are rowsets.
FWIW, Sybase, MSSQL, and DB2 return recordsets via an 'open' SELECT or OPEN CURSOR statement. IE: you execute a SELECT or an OPEN CURSOR, but don't fetch it into anything. Oracle takes the track of fetching into a refcursor or cursor variable, which you return as an OUT or INOUT parameter. The advantage to MSSQL et all is it's less work/code. The advantage to Oracle is there's no ambiguity. -- Jim C. Nasby, Database Consultant [EMAIL PROTECTED] Give your computer some brain candy! www.distributed.net Team #1828 Windows: "Where do you want to go today?" Linux: "Where do you want to go tomorrow?" FreeBSD: "Are you guys coming, or what?" ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
