Re: patch (for 9.1) string functions

On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 2:09 PM, Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> I understand, but with only text accepting, then CONCAT will has much
> less benefit - you can't do a numeric list, for example
>
> see concat(c1::text, ',', c2::text, ',' ...)
>
> with this is much simpler use a pipes '' || c1 || ',' || c2 ... and
> this operator does necessary cast self.
>
> This function is probably one use case of exception from our rules.

At least two, right? Because for that use case you'd probably want
concat_ws(). In fact, it's hard for me to think of a variadic text
function where you wouldn't want the "no casts" behavior you're
getting via ANY.

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