On tis, 2010-01-12 at 16:35 +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > Um, that tag is the "name", and if you change that, the name in CREATE > FUNCTION also changes. I was initially thinking in that direction, but > it seems it won't be feasible without significant refactoring. > > In the mean time, hacking it into the sort function itself as a special > case works out fine, per attached patch. One might frown upon such an > exception, but then again, function overloading is an exception to the > one-name-per-object rule all over the place anyway. ;-)
Since we ran out of time/ideas on this, I would propose just committing the part that breaks ties based on the number of arguments, which already solves a large part of the problem (at least in a pre-default values world) and would very likely be a part of any possible future utterly complete solution. -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers