function returning a cursor and a scalar

I am new to Postgresql and am trying to write a function which will do a
search and return the first page of results along with the total number
of matches. How can I make my function return a cursor AND a scalar -
can I do the scalar as an OUT param and then make the function
explicitly RETURN a refcursor?

Surajit

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