Re: Newbie questions, diff between functions and procedures; & why cube functions?

Hi,

On Thursday 23 November 2006 02:21, novnov wrote:
| pgAdmin III is quite a nice tool but one thing I can't figure out is what
| the difference is between what pgAdmin calls a function and what it calls a
| procedure.

As of PostgreSQL-8.1 function arguments can be declared IN (default), OUT or
INOUT (cf. "CREATE FUNCTION"). If I understand it right, pgAdmin puts a 
function into its "Procedures" section, if it has at least one OUT parameter.

Ciao,
Thomas

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