Re: bugfix - VIP: variadic function ignore strict flag

2010/2/9 Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>:
> Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>> 2010/2/9 Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>:
>>> So what?  "variadic any" is different in a lot of ways.
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>> implementation is different, but from users perspective there can not
>> be differences. I am not sure. From my programmer's view is all ok.
>> But I believe so from customer view, there can be a surprise - because
>> NULL value doesn't skip function call.
>
> It's going to be a bit surprising in any case.  If I write
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>        foo(1, VARIADIC ARRAY[2, NULL])
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> then what I'm passing is not a null, and so I'd be surprised if the
> function wasn't executed.

>
> I think we should just document this, not make a definitional change
> that seems as likely to break applications as fix them.

really I am not sure, what is good solution. Maybe can speak some other.

Pavel

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>                        regards, tom lane
>