Re: dblink: add polymorphic functions.

On Mon, Jul 6, 2015 at 4:23 PM, Michael Paquier
<michael.paquier@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 6, 2015 at 10:00 AM, Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com> wrote:
>> I wonder if it isn't better to just loop through all the args with
>> get_fn_expr_argtype() every time and then test for the exact signature
>> match? Another alternative might be to create a wrapper C function for
>> each variant SQL function, but that seems like it could also get
>> messy, especially with dblink_record_internal() since we would have to
>> deal with every variant of all the external facing callers.
>> Thoughts?
>
> Yeah, particularly the use of first_optarg makes things harder to
> follow in the code with this patch. A C wrapper has the disadvantage
> to decentralize the argument checks to many places making the flow
> harder to follow hence using get_fn_expr_argtype() with PG_NARGS would
> be the way to go, at least to me. This way, you can easily find how
> many arguments there are, and which value is assigned to which
> variable before moving on to the real processing.

Just to be clear I mean that:
if (PG_NARGS() == 5)
{    if (get_fn_expr_argtype(fcinfo->flinfo, 1) == TYPEOID)         var = PG_GETARG_BOOL(1)    [...]
}
else if (PG_NARGS() == 4)
{   [...]
}
else   [...]
-- 
Michael