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Tom Lane wrote:
> BTW, why are all the conn parameters to events declared "const"?  Isn't

Because it looked prettier?  Kidding.  No idea, do you want me to change 
that or do you want to?

> the reason for passing them in mainly to give the event proc a chance
> to issue queries?
>
> 

Partly.  You also want to give the eventproc a chance to issue a 
PQinstanceData call, so it can copy stuff to the created result.

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