Re: Calling variadic function with default value in named notation

On Thu, Oct 29, 2020 at 8:51 AM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:

> "David G. Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> > As I look at this more I'm definitely agreeing that the documentation
> here
> > is problematic. Specifically, the fact that the only place about this
> > syntax is in a chapter under Extending SQ - SQL Functions, is not good.
> It
> > really needs to be in the Syntax chapter.
>
> The documentation situation was complained of in the 2009 thread I just
> cited :-(. Doesn't look like anybody did anything about it.
>
> I am not, however, persuaded that you can just move a bunch of that
> material to the syntax chapter.

That wasn't the intent, but the exact solution will take time to come up
with so I was just being vague.

I don't think it's very practical
> to describe variadic functions when the user doesn't know how to
> create one.

Plenty of users are able to execute built-in functions without knowing how
to create them. This doesn't seem any different.

David J.