> On Tue, Nov 06, 2001 at 07:21:09PM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> >
> > I was talking to Ben Adida last week (OpenACS) and he mentioned they are
> > having problems with the limit at 16, and it seems Josh is as well. Ben
> > is doing some object-oriented function mechanism, and you know how that
> > can eat parameters. Seems we should increase to 24 or 32. Is there a
> > downside to the increase. I can't even imagine a performance hit.
>
> Indeed we (at OpenACS) could use more parameters.
>
> We are porting a zillion Oracle PL/SQL functions to Postgres, and in
> Oracle you can have optional parameters and default values. In PostgreSQL
> we have to overload functions to make up for the possible combinations.
>
> In this process, sometimes we run out of parameters and have to submit to
> more, errr, creative ways to get the job done.
Good. Will 24 params be enough for you?
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