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Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 16:31:29 +1000
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>,
 Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu>
From: Philip Warner <pjw@rhyme.com.au>
Subject: Re: SQL question 
Cc: Carolyn Lu Wong <carolyn@kss.net.au>, <pgsql-sql@postgresql.org>
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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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