On Wednesday 17 December 2008 06:03:06 Tom Lane wrote:
> and it leaves the door open for someone to use something
> besides an empty array as the default.  (Who are we to say that such a
> thing is never useful?  NULL seems like a possibly useful default for
> instance.)

Another point against that: If you wanted something else besides an empty 
array as "default", you can handle that inside the function body by just 
looking at how many arguments were passed.  Using the default mechanism 
provides no added functionality.

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