Re: variadic function support - Mailing list pgsql-patches

From Andrew Dunstan
Subject Re: variadic function support
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Msg-id 48606D38.5020606@dunslane.net
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In response to Re: variadic function support  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Your point about the syntax is good though.  It would be better if
> the syntax were like
>
>     create function foo (a text, variadic b int[])
>
> or maybe even better
>
>     create function foo (a text, variadic b int)
>
> since (a) this makes it much more obvious to the reader what the
> function might match, and (b) it leaves the door open for marking
> multiple parameters as variadic, if we can figure out what that means.
>
>
>

Yes. I understand from the family Java expert that (surface syntax
issues aside) the second is similar to the way Java does this, in fact,
so there's some precedent. That would mean that your first would
actually mean each variadic arg has to be an array of ints, which we
might well want to provide for.

So with that modification I'll be lots happier with the feature.

cheers

andrew

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