Re: bugfix - VIP: variadic function ignore strict flag - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: bugfix - VIP: variadic function ignore strict flag
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Msg-id 18702.1265738212@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: bugfix - VIP: variadic function ignore strict flag  (Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>)
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Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com> writes:
> 2010/2/9 Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>:
>> So what?  "variadic any" is different in a lot of ways.

> implementation is different, but from users perspective there can not
> be differences. I am not sure. From my programmer's view is all ok.
> But I believe so from customer view, there can be a surprise - because
> NULL value doesn't skip function call.

It's going to be a bit surprising in any case.  If I write
foo(1, VARIADIC ARRAY[2, NULL])

then what I'm passing is not a null, and so I'd be surprised if the
function wasn't executed.

I think we should just document this, not make a definitional change
that seems as likely to break applications as fix them.
        regards, tom lane


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