Re: Doc patch--clarifying $1 in PL/PgSQL

Tom Lane wrote:
> Jan Wieck <JanWieck@Yahoo.com> writes:
>> Tom Lane wrote:
>>> Not that hard ... just requires replacing some special-purpose code with
>>> general-purpose code ...
>
>> Does that code cause the variables value to change from function call to
>> function call (what most users would expect if they give it a default
>> value based on a call argument), or will remember the value from the
>> first function call for the lifetime of the backend?
>
> I believe it will evaluate the DEFAULT expression on each entry to the
> block, using the current values of outer-block variables (and also
> variables declared earlier in the same block, if anyone cared to use
> that behavior).  The code was already designed and documented to
> evaluate DEFAULT expressions on each block entry --- what it was missing
> was the ability to reference variables in these expressions.
>
> Do you see something wrong with it?

No, I just didn't test it yet. My only concern was that it could be
another unexpected behaviour related to caching values/plans. Unexpected
caching is what most likely becomes FAQ's and I think we have enough of
those.


Jan

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