Re: Out parameters handling

It wouldn't be so bad if you could assign internal and external column names.

Within the function you call the column "v_foo" but the caller of the
function receives column "foo" instead.

OUT v_foo varchar AS "foo"


Another alternative is requiring a prefix like plout for the
replacement to occur:

( OUT foo varchar )

BEGIN SELECT foo.somename INTO plout.foo FROM foo WHERE id = 10;
 RETURN NEXT;
 RETURN;
END;


On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 8:50 AM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 8:44 PM, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> wrote:
>> Robert,
>>
>> Thing is, anybody can institute their own naming convention.  I've long used
>> v_ as a prefix.  Allowing : would save me some keystrokes, but that's about
>> it.
>>
>> --Josh
>
> True... but there doesn't seem to be any shortage of people who are
> annoyed by the current behavior.  Maybe we should all just learn to
> live with it.
>
> ...Robert
>
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