Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
> > Next question: what do we do if a direct-called function calls
> > return_next()? That at least must surely take effect in the caller's
> > context - the callee won't have anywhere to stash the the results at all.
>
> Whatever do you mean by "take effect in the caller's context"? I surely
> hope it's not "return the row to the caller's caller, who likely isn't
> expecting anything of the kind".
>
> I suspect Tim will just answer that he isn't going to try to
> short-circuit the call path for set-returning functions.
FYI, I am excited PL/Perl is getting a good review and cleaning by Tim.
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