> Yes, you need to use a suspend call to return a value, so any examples
> you have found that do not use the suspend call (to output the value)
> are wrong.
>
> Suspend basically tells Firebird to output one line with the values
> that are currently in the output variables. Do not use suspend if your
> stored procedure returns no result. Always use suspend if your stored
> procedure returns one or more results.

No... use SUSPEND if you intend to use the procedure with
SELECT. Do not use SUSPEND if you [return a single result and]
intend to use the procedure via EXECUTE PROCEDURE or a
procedure component in Delphi.

With regards,

Martijn Tonies
Database Workbench - developer tool for InterBase, Firebird, MySQL & MS SQL
Server
Upscene Productions
http://www.upscene.com

> Be very careful of this. I spend about 3 hours the other day looking
> for a bug in some stored procedures I had written. It turned out that
> I had forgotten to include the suspend, so the variable that had the
> timestamp inside the stored procedure (confirmed by call to
> OutputDebugString) was not returning it to the other Stored Procedure.
> It is very easy to forget.