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📖 NAME

CALL - invoke a procedure

🚀 Quick Reference

Use Case	Command	Description
Simple procedure call	CALL do_db_maintenance();	Invoke a procedure with no arguments
Call with positional arguments	CALL my_proc(42, 'text');	Pass arguments in order
Call with named arguments	CALL my_proc(param1 => 'value');	Explicitly name parameters for clarity
Handle output parameters	CALL proc_with_out(NULL);	Pass NULL for OUT parameters (value not evaluated)
Check privileges	—	User must have EXECUTE privilege on the procedure

📋 SYNOPSIS

CALL name ( [ argument ] [, ...] )

📝 DESCRIPTION

CALL executes a procedure.

If the procedure has any output parameters, then a result row will be returned, containing the values of those parameters.

⚙️ PARAMETERS

• name — The name (optionally schema-qualified) of the procedure.
• argument — An argument expression for the procedure call. Arguments can include parameter names, using the syntax name => value. This works the same as in ordinary function calls (see Section 4.3). Arguments must be supplied for all procedure parameters that lack defaults, including OUT parameters. However, arguments matching OUT parameters are not evaluated, so it's customary to just write NULL for them. (Writing something else for an OUT parameter might cause compatibility problems with future PostgreSQL versions.)

📌 NOTES

• The user must have EXECUTE privilege on the procedure in order to be allowed to invoke it.
• To call a function (not a procedure), use SELECT instead.
• If CALL is executed in a transaction block, then the called procedure cannot execute transaction control statements. Transaction control statements are only allowed if CALL is executed in its own transaction.
• PL/pgSQL handles output parameters in CALL commands differently; see Section 43.6.3.

💡 EXAMPLES

CALL do_db_maintenance();

🔗 COMPATIBILITY

CALL conforms to the SQL standard, except for the handling of output parameters. The standard says that users should write variables to receive the values of output parameters.

📚 SEE ALSO

CREATE PROCEDURE (7)

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