Re: Surfacing qualifiers

Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
To: David Fetter <david@fetter.org>
Cc: PG Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2008-03-26T12:31:04Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

David Fetter wrote:
> Folks,
>
> Neil Conway sent me a patch that sketched out a plan to make quals
> visible to functions
>   

er, what? Please explain what this means, why it might be useful. 
Example(s) would help.

> * In PL/Perl, $_TD->{_quals} gets the qualifiers, but they really
>   should go in their own variable.  I'm thinking that one should be
>   called $_QUAL.
>
>   

$_TD is only there for triggers. Is this a trigger feature?

cheers

andrew