| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Jeff Janes <jeff(dot)janes(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | pgsql-docs(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: PLs and pseudo-types |
| Date: | 2015-12-27 17:58:30 |
| Message-ID: | 1640.1451239110@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Jeff Janes <jeff(dot)janes(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> According to the documentation:
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.5/static/datatype-pseudo.html
> At present the procedural languages all forbid use of a pseudo-type as
> argument type, and allow only void and record as a result type (plus
> trigger when the function is used as a trigger).
> However, pl/perl has accepted "record" as in argument type since 9.1.
I'm inclined to just change this to weasel wording like "forbid use of
most pseudo-types". The odds of remembering to update this para when
individual PLs change behavior seem poor.
regards, tom lane
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