On Apr11, 2014, at 19:42 , Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > Florian Pflug <f...@phlo.org> writes: >> Yes, the idea had come up at some point during the review discussion. I >> agree that it's only worthwhile if it works for state type internal - though >> I think there ought to be a way to allow that. We could for example simply >> decree that the initfunc's first parameter must be of type internal if it's >> return type is, and then just pass NULL for that parameter. > > I had thought about that, but it doesn't really work since it'd be > violating the strictness spec of the function.
Only if we insist on passing SQL NULL, not if we passed an non-NULL value that happens to be (char*)0. Or we could simply require the initfunc to be non-strict in the case of state type internal. best regards, Florian Pflug -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
