Re: [HACKERS] passing parameters by reference

2005-02-11 Thread Tom Lane
Sibtay Abbas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > One of my tasks includes allowing plpgsql functions to pass parameters by > reference. What do you envision the context of this to be? You certainly can't suppose that it's sane for SELECT foo(col) FROM tab; to modify the table column.

[HACKERS] passing parameters by reference

2005-02-11 Thread Sibtay Abbas
hello all as i have mentioned this before, as part of my academic project i am required to make modifications in postgresql. One of my tasks includes allowing plpgsql functions to pass parameters by reference. For this purpose I have been digging in the code for plpgsql and postgresql for 2 days