Re: PATCH: make plpgsql IN args mutable (v1) - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Steve Prentice
Subject Re: PATCH: make plpgsql IN args mutable (v1)
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Msg-id AD33A76E-B369-4FC5-BE61-1E8D347383AC@cisco.com
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In response to Re: PATCH: make plpgsql IN args mutable (v1)  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Thank you!

-Steve

On Sep 19, 2009, at 6:55 PM, Tom Lane wrote:

Steve Prentice <prentice@cisco.com> writes:
> This patch changes plpgsql IN parameters so they are mutable.

I've applied this, since the consensus seemed to be in favor of it.

> I decided not to update the docs for this change because the docs
> don't currently indicate that an IN parameter is constant and I didn't
> want to encourage it because it isn't universally considered good
> programming practice to assign to an IN parameter. If others think we
> need a doc change for this, I'll update the patch.

I agree, no need to say anything one way or the other in the plpgsql  
docs.
We'll want to mention it in the release notes of course.
        regards, tom lane



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