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From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Need help with INOUT mis-understanding
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Msg-id 11907.1130363162@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Need help with INOUT mis-understanding  (Tony Caduto <tony_caduto@amsoftwaredesign.com>)
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Tony Caduto <tony_caduto@amsoftwaredesign.com> writes:
> So what you are saying is INOUT params are NOT constants and you can
> modify them in the function body?

If you couldn't modify them, there would be no way to return a new
value (ie, anything but the passed-in value), so it'd be pretty broken
IMHO ...

            regards, tom lane

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