Re: Meaning of "constant" not honored when the variable is used as the actual for a proc's OUT formal paameter

[Bryn Llewellyn <bryn@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

bryn@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

The DO block runs without error and reports "INFO:  42". This is an unambiguous semantic error because "a" is declared "constant"… Is this a known issue?

It is, see https://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git&a=commitdiff&h=ccd10a9bf

Thanks for the instant response, Tom. It's uncanny that you spotted this on Saturday 30-Apr and I spotted it just three days later on Tuesday 3-May. One of us must be psychic.