On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 9:05 PM, Steve Prentice<prent...@cisco.com> wrote: > 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?
Well, in my imagination, if you were proposing something completely different, it would... sorry for the noise. ...Robert -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
