Re: Proposal: real procedures again (8.4)

Gregory Stark <stark@enterprisedb.com> writes:
> "Pavel Stehule" <pavel.stehule@gmail.com> writes:
>> Why new calling convention? I would to support byref variables and
>> then I have to carry memory context info ... and maybe some others

> I think first you have to invent something for the by-ref parameter to refer
> to.

Most of that sounded to me like a proposal to re-invent ecpg.  If there
were such a large demand for doing things that way, there would be many
more users of ecpg than bare libpq.  AFAICT, though, *very* few people
use ecpg.
        regards, tom lane