On 10/22/15 8:52 PM, Dane Foster wrote:
> It just occurred to me that another option, for my specific example,
> would be to record/cache FOUND instead of testing the RECORD variable
> for its NULLness. Unless of course assigning FOUND to a variable is a
> pass-by-reference assignment, which in the actual code that I'm writing
> would be problematic because FOUND is set many times because there are
> at least 4 SQL commands that my function executes.
AFAIK, functions don't really do pass by reference, except for INOUT
parameters. In any case, FOUND is definitely reset when you do things
like SELECT INTO.
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