Re: OVERLOAD matching: varchar(10) & varchar(20)

No, no it can't ... not really.

Assuming the procedure's been out there for a while with CONST, removing it
will break existing callers.  Unless you recompile everything using it.
And even there you could end up with a failed compile.

Charles


On Mon, Feb 2, 2026 at 9:51 AM Justin Taylor <[email protected]> wrote:

> The OVERLOAD points to diff procedures, and those procedures have the query
> details.  OVERLOAD IMO obfuscates the functionality, which I don't like.
> But it can work.
>
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 2, 2026 at 10:40 AM Daniel Gross <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Oh - and you are trying to detect the field/column for the WHERE clause
> > out of the length of the parameter field?
> >
> > Not a good idea IMHO.
> >
> > Make it 2 parameters with OPTION(*NOPASS:*OMIT). If the user wants the
> > original procedure with SERIAL#
> >
> >    procedure(serial_field);
> >
> > If the ORDER# is wanted:
> >
> >    procedure(*omit:orderno_field);
> >
> > And the user can even supply both fields if needed).
> >
> > This way you can detect it via %PASSED(...) and there are no ambiguities.
> >
> > HTH
> > Daniel
> >
> >
> >
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