Hi

2015-08-12 19:18 GMT+02:00 Marko Tiikkaja <ma...@joh.to>:

> Hi,
>
> I'd like to suggest $SUBJECT for inclusion in Postgres 9.6.  I'm sure
> everyone would've found it useful at some point in their lives, and the
> fact that it can't be properly implemented in any language other than C I
> think speaks for the fact that we as a project should provide it.
>
> A quick and dirty proof of concept (patch attached):
>
> =# select count_nulls(null::int, null::text, 17, 'bar');
>  count_nulls
> -------------
>            2
> (1 row)
>
> Its natural habitat would be CHECK constraints, e.g:
>
>   CHECK (count_nulls(a,b,c) IN (0, 3))
>
> Will finish this up for the next CF, unless someone wants to tell me how
> stupid this idea is before that.
>

 It is not bad idea

+1

Pavel


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