Re: prokind column (was Re: [HACKERS] SQL procedures)

On 2/28/18 17:37, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On 2/28/18 15:45, Tom Lane wrote:
>> I have reviewed this patch and attach an updated version below.
>> I've rebased it up to today, fixed a few minor errors, and adopted
>> most of Michael's suggestions.  Also, since I remain desperately
>> unhappy with putting zeroes into prorettype, I changed it to not
>> do that ;-) ... now procedures have VOIDOID as their prorettype,
>> and it will be substantially less painful to allow them to return
>> some other scalar result in future, should we wish to.  I believe
>> I've found all the places that were relying on prorettype == 0 as
>> a substitute for prokind == 'p'.
> 
> I have just posted "INOUT parameters in procedures", which contains some
> of those same changes.  So I think we're on the same page.  I will work
> on consolidating this.

Committed this so far.  More to come on touching this up.

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