Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> writes:
> Well, you can implement it. After all, the CALL syntax is merely
> syntactic sugar. You could (if you wanted to) do the following:

> CREATE FUNCTION foo( a TEXT IN, b TEXT INOUT, c TEXT OUT ) as blah...

> And in a pl/pgsql function, translate: "CALL foo(a,b,c)"
> into "(b,c) = foo(a,b)" internally.

No, Pavel's right: that doesn't work because it's ambiguous.  How do you
tell whether "CALL foo(a,b,c)" means

        a,b,c := foo();
        b,c := foo(a);
        c := foo(a,b);
        select foo(a,b,c);

There could be functions foo matching all four interpretations.

we can do some hints:

CALL foo(a, OUT b, OUT c)

it's better than nothing

comments?

Regards
Pavel Stehule

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