Hello

here is patch, that enables using a variadic parameter modifier for
variadic "any" function.

Motivation for this patch is consistent behave of "format" function,
but it fixes behave of all this class variadic functions.

postgres=> -- check pass variadic argument
postgres=> select format('%s, %s', variadic array['Hello','World']);
    format
──────────────
 Hello, World
(1 row)

postgres=> -- multidimensional array is supported
postgres=> select format('%s, %s', variadic
array[['Nazdar','Svete'],['Hello','World']]);
            format
───────────────────────────────
 {Nazdar,Svete}, {Hello,World}
(1 row)

It respect Tom's comments - it is based on short-lived FmgrInfo
structures, that are created immediately before function invocation.

Note: there is unsolved issue - reusing transformed arguments - so it
is little bit suboptimal for VARIADIC RETURNING MultiFuncCall
functions, where we don't need to repeat a unpacking of array value.

Regards

Pavel

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• Re: proposal: fix corner use case of variadic fuctions usage at 2012-11-30 10:18:10 from Vik Reykja

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