Re: WIP: default values for function parameters - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Pavel Stehule
Subject Re: WIP: default values for function parameters
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Msg-id 162867790812090728v3a1ec454l8058de338aa465ec@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: WIP: default values for function parameters  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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2008/12/9 Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>:
> "Pavel Stehule" <pavel.stehule@gmail.com> writes:
>> 2008/12/9 Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>:
>>> ... and it breaks an operator that's already in use.
>
>> what is acceptable workaround? I unhappy, so this symbol was used for
>> this minor contrib module (for this operator doesn't exists regress
>> test).
>
> If you could prove that it were *only* being used by this contrib module
> then I might hold still for replacing it.  But you can't.  The odds are
> good that people have custom data types using similarly-named operators.

it means, so we must not implement any new operator?

regards
Pavel Stehule

>
>                        regards, tom lane
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