On Jul 29, 2009, at 5:26 PM, Robert Haas wrote:
Wow.  I can imagine about a thousand ways that this could break
existing applications.  I would not be prepared to bet a dollar that
anything I've written would survive the impact unscathed.

I have a feeling someone else is going to shoot you out of the water
completely, but all I'll say is it would definitely need to be
OPTIONAL.

I guess I don't get how it would break existing applications. All of the regression tests pass. The parameters are passed as a copy, so it can't modify your variable that you pass in. Perhaps I'm missing something--can you elaborate on how this would break existing applications?

-Steve

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