From: | Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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To: | Marko Tiikkaja <marko(at)joh(dot)to> |
Cc: | PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: count_nulls(VARIADIC "any") |
Date: | 2015-08-12 17:31:27 |
Message-ID: | CAFj8pRDW18xhTrVDTDKdomHEcAjmFZrojkAGgpvyjbw8gyoB_w@mail.gmail.com |
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Hi
2015-08-12 19:18 GMT+02:00 Marko Tiikkaja <marko(at)joh(dot)to>:
> Hi,
>
> I'd like to suggest $SUBJECT for inclusion in Postgres 9.6. I'm sure
> everyone would've found it useful at some point in their lives, and the
> fact that it can't be properly implemented in any language other than C I
> think speaks for the fact that we as a project should provide it.
>
> A quick and dirty proof of concept (patch attached):
>
> =# select count_nulls(null::int, null::text, 17, 'bar');
> count_nulls
> -------------
> 2
> (1 row)
>
> Its natural habitat would be CHECK constraints, e.g:
>
> CHECK (count_nulls(a,b,c) IN (0, 3))
>
> Will finish this up for the next CF, unless someone wants to tell me how
> stupid this idea is before that.
>
It is not bad idea
+1
Pavel
>
> .m
>
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