Re: proposal: variadic argument support for least, greatest function

From: "David G(dot) Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(dot)dunstan(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Chapman Flack <chap(at)anastigmatix(dot)net>, David Steele <david(at)pgmasters(dot)net>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>, Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: Re: proposal: variadic argument support for least, greatest function
Date: 2019-03-11 22:26:03
Message-ID: CAKFQuwbO+U20_-wb2uwd-88exKSKDrgV-mSVoFZNpZR+ZUptDA@mail.gmail.com
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On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 3:07 PM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew(dot)dunstan(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> > I'm going to mark this as rejected. Here's a possible doc patch
>
> Maybe s/strictly/ordinary/, or some other word? "strictly"
> doesn't convey much to me. Otherwise seems fine.
>

How about:

While the COALESCE, GREATEST, and LEAST functions below accept a
variable number of arguments they do not support the passing of a
VARIADIC array.

?

David J.

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