Re: Out parameters handling

On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 9:08 AM, Rod Taylor <rod(dot)taylor(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> 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;

This is a good point. Uglifying the parameter names is sort of OK for
input parameters, but is much more annoying for output parameters.

...Robert