Re: WIP: default values for function parameters

From: "Pavel Stehule" <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: "Grzegorz Jaskiewicz" <gj(at)pointblue(dot)com(dot)pl>, "PostgreSQL Hackers" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, "Peter Eisentraut" <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
Subject: Re: WIP: default values for function parameters
Date: 2008-12-09 15:28:59
Message-ID: 162867790812090728v3a1ec454l8058de338aa465ec@mail.gmail.com
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2008/12/9 Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>:
> "Pavel Stehule" <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>> 2008/12/9 Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>:
>>> ... and it breaks an operator that's already in use.
>
>> what is acceptable workaround? I unhappy, so this symbol was used for
>> this minor contrib module (for this operator doesn't exists regress
>> test).
>
> If you could prove that it were *only* being used by this contrib module
> then I might hold still for replacing it. But you can't. The odds are
> good that people have custom data types using similarly-named operators.

it means, so we must not implement any new operator?

regards
Pavel Stehule

>
> regards, tom lane
>

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