Re: RfD: more powerful "any" types

Pavel Stehule escribió:

> Please, try to compile and run sprintf function from attachment

There's a minor bug in the comparison to PG_NARGS() inside the loop,
fixed in this version.

The one problem I have with this is that if the format string does not
contain any % (and thus there is no extra argument), it errors out:

alvherre=# select text_format('ouch');
ERROR: function text_format(unknown) does not exist
LÍNEA 1: select text_format('ouch');
^
SUGERENCIA: No function matches the given name and argument types. You might need to add explicit type casts.

AFAICS fixing this would require a second pg_proc entry for this
function.

alvherre=# select text_format('% was % at % and said % % times', 'Pavel'::text, 'here'::unknown, now(), row('a','b','c'), '{42}'::int[]);
text_format
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Pavel was here at 2009-09-10 13:12:09.054653-04 and said (a,b,c) {42} times
(1 fila)

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