Re: SQL-Invoked Procedures for 8.1

On Fri, 2004-09-24 at 02:40, Tom Lane wrote:
> I concur with Grant Finnemore's objection as well: people expect
> procedures to be able to return resultsets, ie SETOF something,
> not only scalar values.

IMHO most products (and the standard) define stored procedures as not
returning _anything_, whether they be scalar values or not. The only
counter-example I've seen pointed out is MS SQL. Or are you talking
about non-scalar OUT params?

-Neil