Re: PATCH: make plpgsql IN args mutable (v1) [REVIEW]

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
Cc: Abhijit Menon-Sen <ams(at)toroid(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Steve Prentice <prentice(at)cisco(dot)com>
Subject: Re: PATCH: make plpgsql IN args mutable (v1) [REVIEW]
Date: 2009-09-16 13:59:46
Message-ID: 20090916135946.GF13076@alvh.no-ip.org
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Andrew Dunstan wrote:

> It probably won't cause any problem with code being migrated from
> PLSQL, but it will affect code going the other way. The question is:
> do we care about that? I'm prepared to be persuaded that we
> shouldn't care, but I'm not quite there yet.

Anybody trying to port code from PL/pgSQL to PL/SQL is going to be a lot
more inconvenienced by the OUT parameter stuff.

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Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support

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