Re: Proposal: OUT parameters for plpgsql

Gavin Sherry <swm@linuxworld.com.au> writes:
>> Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:
>>> (When there is just one, should the default be to return that type
>>> rather than a one-column RECORD?)

> ANSI SQL allows at most one OUT parameter for a function (which can be
> used instead of having the function return a value via the usual means).

OK, so that answers my question above: a single OUT parameter should be
equated to an ordinary return value, not a RECORD, so as to emulate this
aspect of the spec.
        regards, tom lane