Re: Issues for named/mixed function notation patch - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Robert Haas
Subject Re: Issues for named/mixed function notation patch
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Msg-id 603c8f070910071615r422d19fct6ebfa92b4bafcd1@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: Issues for named/mixed function notation patch  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 5:45 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> I think what he was considering was the question of insisting that
> the VARIADIC keyword be attached to the named argument that actually
> matches the VARIADIC parameter.  I think we could do it, but it might
> be a bit of a wart.  I notice that right now, an unnecessary VARIADIC
> keyword in a regular positional call does not cause an error, it's just
> ignored --- so we're already being a bit lax with it.

I'd be more inclined to to tighten up the place where we're currently
being lax than to treat additional situations in a similarly lax
manner.

...Robert


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