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Re: arrays as pl/perl input arguments [PATCH]

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: "David E. Wheeler" <david@kineticode.com>
Cc: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, Alexey Klyukin <alexk@commandprompt.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2011-01-13T04:57:20Z
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"David E. Wheeler" <david@kineticode.com> writes:
> On Jan 11, 2011, at 3:44 PM, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>> I think there's at least a danger of breaking legacy code doing that. Say you have some code that does a ref test on the argument, for example. The behavior would now be changed.

> I think that'd be pretty rare.

I'm not seeing how an unsupported fear that there *might* be some
incompatibilities is a good argument for instead adopting an approach
that absolutely, positively, guaranteed *WILL* break everybody's code.

			regards, tom lane