Re: OUT parameter

Tom Lane wrote:

> "Owen Jacobson" <ojacobson@osl.com> writes:
> > I'd say there's no problem with this, PROVIDED you can ensure you'll
> > never abort before completing the computation.
>
> Not really an issue in Postgres: we do not support pass-by-reference
> parameters and are unlikely to start doing so.  There isn't any way
> that you can affect locals of a calling procedure before you return.

Then I've misunderstood the semantics of OUT and more importantly INOUT parameters.  Thanks for the correction; I'm
readingDaniel Caune's notes on the docs now. 

-Owen