Re: RfD: more powerful "any" types - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From David E. Wheeler
Subject Re: RfD: more powerful "any" types
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In response to Re: RfD: more powerful "any" types  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Sep 9, 2009, at 10:15 AM, Tom Lane wrote:

>> In order for this to work in general, we'd need FUNC_MAX_ARGS  
>> different
>> types, which is currently defined as 100 in our code.
>
> But here, "any" would work perfectly fine, since there's no need for
> any two arguments to be tied to each other or the result.

Well, only if you write your functions in C. I'd like to be able to  
write sprintf() in PL/pgSQL. Or PL/Perl, for that matter.

Best,

David


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