Gavin Sherry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I think that not specifying OUT parameters when invoking a function is a > little of confusing but it gives us a lot: its much easier to develop > since we don't have to add a stack of infrastructure for host variables, > for one.
Also, it doesn't stop us from adding that infrastructure later. The call syntax SELECT * FROM foo(...) will still do what it has been doing for awhile, but you could imagine inventing other call syntaxes that accommodate host variables more directly. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org