> Probably not, if the way you seem to expect it to work is like Oracle. > An INOUT parameter isn't some sort of modifiable by-reference variable, > it's just a shorthand for declaring an IN parameter and an OUT > parameter. > Thanks for the response. That makes a lot of sense but I guess I was wishing to make it work in porting all the oracle pl/sql. If I have a function with 3 INOUTs and I get a return of (30,20,1) how should I structure it so I can read only the "1" from another function call? Should I be doing SETOF? I just haven't figured how to parse results within functions.. any suggestions for me? Thank you Troy ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match