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* Re: Function with default value?
@ 2006-01-29 15:47  Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
  parent: Daniel CAUNE <d.caune@free.fr>
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread

From: Tom Lane @ 2006-01-29 15:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Daniel CAUNE <d.caune@free.fr>; +Cc: pgsql-sql

Daniel CAUNE <d.caune@free.fr> writes:
> Is it possible to define a function with some default values?
> CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION foo(i IN int, j IN int DEFAULT := 1)

No.  But you can fake many versions of this with a family of functions:

CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION foo(i IN int, j IN int) ...

CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION foo(i IN int) ... return foo(i, 1) ...

Remember that PG lets you "overload" a function name by using the same
name with different parameter lists.

			regards, tom lane



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* Function with default value?
@ 2006-01-29 20:15  Daniel CAUNE <d.caune@free.fr>
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread

From: Daniel CAUNE @ 2006-01-29 20:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: pgsql-sql

Hi,

 

Is it possible to define a function with some default values?

 

CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION foo(i IN int, j IN int DEFAULT := 1)

…

 

Anyway, I didn’t find such a feature described in the PostgreSQL 8.1 documentation, but sometimes, that doesn’t mean that the feature doesn’t exist! :-)

 

Thanks,

 

 

Daniel

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* Re: Function with default value?
@ 2006-01-30 03:40  Daniel CAUNE <d.caune@free.fr>
  parent: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread

From: Daniel CAUNE @ 2006-01-30 03:40 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>; +Cc: pgsql-sql

> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : Tom Lane [mailto:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us]
> Envoyé : dimanche 29 janvier 2006 10:48
> À : Daniel CAUNE
> Cc : pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
> Objet : Re: [SQL] Function with default value?
> 
> Daniel CAUNE <d.caune@free.fr> writes:
> > Is it possible to define a function with some default values?
> > CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION foo(i IN int, j IN int DEFAULT := 1)
> 
> No.  But you can fake many versions of this with a family of functions:
> 
> CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION foo(i IN int, j IN int) ...
> 
> CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION foo(i IN int) ... return foo(i, 1) ...
> 
> Remember that PG lets you "overload" a function name by using the same
> name with different parameter lists.
> 
> 			regards, tom lane

Yes, thanks Tom, for the second time.




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