> If I understand the limitations correctly, though, what this would do is
> cause functions to perform substantially differently if called with
> expressions as arguments instead of text constants, no? Seems like that
> would lead to some user confusion. Although, with stuff like now(), we
> already have that.
After some discussion on IRC, I realized I misunderstood the limitations
of the patch. I'd say that this would be a significant improvement for
a large number of real-world cases. The more in-depth solution ... that
is, one which would accept column parameters ... would of course make
this patch obsolete, but AFAIK nobody is working on that yet.
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