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Support "variadic" functions, which can accept a variable number of arguments

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so long as all the trailing arguments are of the same (non-array) type.
The function receives them as a single array argument (which is why they
have to all be the same type).

It might be useful to extend this facility to aggregates, but this patch
doesn't do that.

This patch imposes a noticeable slowdown on function lookup --- a follow-on
patch will fix that by adding a redundant column to pg_proc.

Pavel Stehule
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Tom Lane
2008-07-16 01:30:23 +00:00
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<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/plpgsql.sgml,v 1.131 2008/06/27 01:52:59 tgl Exp $ -->
<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/plpgsql.sgml,v 1.132 2008/07/16 01:30:21 tgl Exp $ -->
<chapter id="plpgsql">
<title><application>PL/pgSQL</application> - <acronym>SQL</acronym> Procedural Language</title>
@@ -121,6 +121,13 @@
calling query, as discussed in <xref linkend="queries-tablefunctions">.
</para>
<para>
<application>PL/pgSQL</> functions can be declared to accept a variable
number of arguments by using the <literal>VARIADIC</> marker. This
works exactly the same way as for SQL functions, as discussed in
<xref linkend="xfunc-sql-variadic-functions">.
</para>
<para>
<application>PL/pgSQL</> functions can also be declared to accept
and return the polymorphic types