Re: Anonymous code blocks

From: Dimitri Fontaine <dfontaine(at)hi-media(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Petr Jelinek <pjmodos(at)pjmodos(dot)net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Anonymous code blocks
Date: 2009-09-22 20:40:58
Message-ID: m2ocp23e79.fsf@hi-media.com
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Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>> A note about void returning functions....there are no send/recv
>> functions for the void type which will cause problems for users of
>> this feature over the binary protocol.
>
> This isn't a SELECT and doesn't return anything, so I don't see the
> issue.

I somehow had to force me into thinking about DO as a Utility command
and not a query... but I guess the previous discussion about wanting to
have a lambda construct and functions as types confused us. We're not
there yet, DO is only a utility command.

Regards,
--
dim

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