On Aug 6, 2010, at 1:49 PM, Pavel Stehule wrote:
> yes it is one a possibility and probably best. The nice of this
> variant can be two forms like current variadic does - foo(.., a :=
> 10, b := 10) or foo(.., variadic ARRAY[(a,10),(b,10)])
I started fiddling and got as far as this:
CREATE TYPE pair AS ( key text, val text );
CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION pair(anyelement, anyelement) RETURNS pair
LANGUAGE SQL AS $$
SELECT ROW($1, $2)::pair;
$$;
CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION pair(text, text) RETURNS pair
LANGUAGE SQL AS $$
SELECT ROW($1, $2)::pair;
$$;
CREATE OPERATOR ~> (
LEFTARG = anyelement,
RIGHTARG = anyelement,
PROCEDURE = pair
);
CREATE OPERATOR ~> (
LEFTARG = text,
RIGHTARG = text,
PROCEDURE = pair
);
CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION foo(variadic pair[]) RETURNS SETOF text
LANGUAGE SQL AS $$
-- SELECT unnest($1)::text
SELECT $1[1].key
UNION SELECT $1[1].val
UNION SELECT $1[2].key
UNION SELECT $1[2].val;
$$;
SELECT foo('this' ~> 'that', 1 ~> 4);
Not bad, I think. I kind of like it. It reminds me how much I hate the % hstore
construction operator, though (the new name for =>).
Best,
David
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