From: | Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(at)kineticode(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: RfD: more powerful "any" types |
Date: | 2009-09-09 18:00:51 |
Message-ID: | 162867790909091100j7ef3e47dqf65b6f6fbc5e6979@mail.gmail.com |
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2009/9/9 Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>:
> "David E. Wheeler" <david(at)kineticode(dot)com> writes:
>> Yes, that sounds about right. Is that not basically what Alvaro was
>> looking for to start with? And is there an "any" array that could work
>> for variadic functions like sprintf(), as well?
>
> Well, no, because arrays are inherently all the same element type.
> You could try to do sprintf as
>
> sprintf(text, variadic anyarray) returns text
>
> but this constrains all the arguments to be the same type, which is
> not what you want. The variadic mechanism doesn't have the ability
> to deal with what you're suggesting, and I'm not sure we want to try
> to make it do that.
variadic "any" isn't transformed to array.
we are able to write sprintf(text, variadic "any") returns text, but only in C
regards
Pavel Stehule
>
> regards, tom lane
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