Re: Doc patch--clarifying $1 in PL/PgSQL - Mailing list pgsql-patches

From David Fetter
Subject Re: Doc patch--clarifying $1 in PL/PgSQL
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Msg-id 20031222225403.GG25063@fetter.org
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In response to Re: Doc patch--clarifying $1 in PL/PgSQL  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 05:50:12PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> David Fetter <david@fetter.org> writes:
> > +      Note that it is not possible to assign function arguments during
> > +      a <literal>DECLARE</> block.
>
> Seems to me this is a bug that should be fixed, not documented.

I got the impression from Jan Wieck that it wasn't fixable, or at
least not without a major rewrite of the plpgsql engine.  I'm sure
somebody will correct me if I got a mistaken impression, though :)

Cheers,
D
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