Re: SQL-standard function body

On Wed, Jul  1, 2020 at 10:14:10AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> > In my experience, there's certainly demand for some kind of mode where
> > plpgsql functions get checked at function definition time, rather than
> > at execution time.
> 
> Yeah, absolutely agreed.  But I'm afraid this proposal takes us too
> far in the other direction: with this, you *must* have a 100% parseable
> and semantically valid function body, every time all the time.
> 
> So far as plpgsql is concerned, I could see extending the validator
> to run parse analysis (not just raw parsing) on all SQL statements in
> the body.  This wouldn't happen of course with check_function_bodies off,
> so it wouldn't affect dump/reload.  But likely there would still be
> demand for more fine-grained control over it ... or maybe it could
> stop doing analysis as soon as it finds a DDL command?

Is the SQL-standard function body verified as preventing function
inlining?  That seems to be a major downside.

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