Thread: BUG or feature?

Hi.
Bug or feature?

CREATE FUNCTION upd (text, text) RETURNS text AS '
  BEGIN
    RETURN $1;
  END
' LANGUAGE 'plpgsql';

SELECT upd('aaa','bbb');
aaa

SELECT upd(null,'bbb');
<null>

All seems ok, but how about next ?

SELECT upd('aaa',null);
<null>


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With best regards, Max Vaschenko,
Nizhny Novgorod Information Networks.

Max Vaschenko <max@nino.ru> writes:
> All seems ok, but how about next ?
> SELECT upd('aaa',null);
> <null>

This is fixed in 7.1.  It's unfixable in prior releases because the
old function manager only maintained one argument-is-null flag for a
function call ... so *all* the arguments are taken as null if any are.

            regards, tom lane