Re: arrays as pl/perl input arguments [PATCH] - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andrew Dunstan
Subject Re: arrays as pl/perl input arguments [PATCH]
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Msg-id 4D2CFC15.7050105@dunslane.net
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In response to Re: arrays as pl/perl input arguments [PATCH]  ("David E. Wheeler" <david@kineticode.com>)
Responses Re: arrays as pl/perl input arguments [PATCH]  (Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>)
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On 01/11/2011 07:17 PM, David E. Wheeler wrote:
> On Jan 11, 2011, at 3:44 PM, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>
>> I think there's at least a danger of breaking legacy code doing that. Say you have some code that does a ref test on
theargument, for example. The behavior would now be changed.
 
> I think that'd be pretty rare.
>
>

Possibly it would. But we usually try pretty hard to avoid that sort of 
breakage.

cheers

andrew


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