Steve Prentice <prentice@cisco.com> writes:
> This patch changes plpgsql IN parameters so they are mutable.
I've applied this, since the consensus seemed to be in favor of it.
> I decided not to update the docs for this change because the docs
> don't currently indicate that an IN parameter is constant and I didn't
> want to encourage it because it isn't universally considered good
> programming practice to assign to an IN parameter. If others think we
> need a doc change for this, I'll update the patch.
I agree, no need to say anything one way or the other in the plpgsql docs.
We'll want to mention it in the release notes of course.
regards, tom lane