Tom, Pavel,
> > Hmm, I see your point. I'm personally satisfied with adding a new
> > proargmode to solve this as you suggest.
>
> This will break client-side code that looks at proargmode, and I don't
> think the argument in favor is strong enough to justify that ...
What kind of client-side code are we talking about breaking? Just pgAdmin &
phpPgAdmin and the like, or potentially other stuff that calls stored
procedures?
FWIW, pgAdmin3 1.6 *already* breaks on 8.3 procedures, so we have client-side
breakage already.
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Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL @ Sun
San Francisco