po 5. 10. 2020 v 11:46 odesílatel Peter Eisentraut <
peter.eisentr...@2ndquadrant.com> napsal:

> On 2020-09-29 08:23, Pavel Stehule wrote:
> > This was an important issue if I remember well.  Passing mandatory NULL
> > as OUT arguments solves this issue.
> > I fully agree so OUT arguments are part of the procedure's signature.
> > Unfortunately, there is another difference
> > from functions, but I don't think so there is a better solution, and we
> > should live with it. I think it can work well.
>
> This has been committed.
>
> > I found one issue. The routine for selecting function or procedure based
> > on signature should be fixed.
> >
> > CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE public.procp(OUT integer)
> >   LANGUAGE plpgsql
> > AS $procedure$
> > BEGIN
> >    $1 := 10;
> > END;
> > $procedure$
> >
> > DO
> > $$
> > DECLARE n numeric;
> > BEGIN
> >    CALL procp(n);
> >    RAISE NOTICE '%', n;
> > END;
> > $$;
> > ERROR:  procedure procp(numeric) does not exist
> > LINE 1: CALL procp(n)
> >               ^
> > HINT:  No procedure matches the given name and argument types. You might
> > need to add explicit type casts.
> > QUERY:  CALL procp(n)
> > CONTEXT:  PL/pgSQL function inline_code_block line 4 at CALL
>
> This is normal; there is no implicit cast from numeric to int.  The same
> error happens if you call a function foo(int) with foo(42::numeric).
>

this is OUT argument - so direction is reversed - and implicit cast from
int to numeric exists.


> > postgres=# create or replace procedure px(anyelement, out anyelement)
> > as $$
> > begin
> >    $2 := $1;
> > end;
> > $$ language plpgsql;
> >
> > postgres=# call px(10, null);
> > ERROR:  cannot display a value of type anyelement
> >
> > but inside plpgsql it works
> > do $$
> > declare xx int;
> > begin
> >    call px(10, xx);
> >    raise notice '%', xx;
> > end;
> > $$;
>
> This might be worth further investigation, but since it happens also
> with INOUT parameters, it seems orthogonal to this patch.
>

yes - this breaks using varchar against text argument, although these types
are almost identical.



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