| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | MindTerm <mindterm(at)yahoo(dot)com>, pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: How to create function with unspecified number of input parameters |
| Date: | 2001-11-25 05:29:05 |
| Message-ID: | 200111250529.fAP5T6G00259@candle.pha.pa.us |
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> MindTerm <mindterm(at)yahoo(dot)com> writes:
> > I am writing to ask how to create function ( CREATE
> > FUNCTION ) with unspecified number of input parameters
>
> CREATE FUNCTION doesn't presently support that.
>
> If the underlying function is written in C, you can fake it by
> issuing multiple CREATE FUNCTION commands with different numbers
> of declared parameters, all of which point to the same C function.
> Then the C code would have to look at fcinfo->nargs to see how it
> had been called.
Is this a TODO item?
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