Re: variadic function support
Tom Lane <[email protected]>
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Andrew Dunstan <[email protected]> writes: > Tom Lane wrote: >> What would you consider "proper and full support"? > > I don't know. But this doesn't feel like it. That's a fairly weak argument for rejecting a patch that provides a feature many people have asked for. I thought the patch was pretty clever, actually. The main functionality complaint someone might level against it is that all the variadic arguments have to be (coercible to) the same type. However, that's still pretty useful, and I don't see a reasonable solution that provides more generality than that in a type-safe way. I'm quite happy that you can't write sprintf() using this ;-) A different line of argument is whether this functionality is sufficiently badly needed that we should get out in front of the SQL standard on providing it, and risk being stuck with legacy behavior if they eventually adopt some other mechanism to solve the same problem. I'm not sure how worried I am about that. There are certainly a boatload of Postgres-isms in and around CREATE FUNCTION already, so it's hard to make a case against "just one more". regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-patches mailing list ([email protected]) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-patches