From: Philip Warner <pjw@rhyme.com.au>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu>
Cc: Carolyn Lu Wong <carolyn@kss.net.au>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: SQL question
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 16:31:29 +1000
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At 02:26 17/07/00 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>
>Well before my time, I guess --- as long as I've been paying attention,
>the function manager's approach was to call the routine first and *then*
>insert a NULL result ... if the routine hadn't crashed first. That's
>about as braindead a choice as I can think of, but that's what it did.
>
Out of curiosity, what does it do now?
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