Re: Need help with INOUT mis-understanding

Tom Lane wrote:

>Tony Caduto <tony_caduto(at)amsoftwaredesign(dot)com> writes:
>
>
>>I have noticed this as well, if I declare OUT params I can modify them
>>to my hearts content before they go out,
>>however if you declare it as a INOUT you can't modify it because it is
>>declared as a constant.
>>
>>
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>Uh, I don't think so.
>
> /* input argument vars are forced to be CONSTANT */
> if (argmode == PROARGMODE_IN)
> ((PLpgSQL_var *) argvariable)->isconst = true;
>
>Can you provide a test case that misbehaves that way?
>
> regards, tom lane
>
>
>
Tom,
Maybe we are mis-communicating here.
So what you are saying is INOUT params are NOT constants and you can
modify them in the function body?
I could have sworn that did not work for me in beta1, I will try it
again in beta 4 and see if things have changed.

Thanks,

Tony Caduto