* Tom Lane (t...@sss.pgh.pa.us) wrote:
> Why do we throw an error for too few arguments, but not too many?
Not sure offhand, though I could see how it might be useful. A use-case
might be that you have a variable template string which is user defined,
where they can choose from the arguments that
regression=# select format('%s %s', 'foo', 'bar');
format
-
foo bar
(1 row)
regression=# select format('%s %s', 'foo', 'bar', 'baz');
format
-
foo bar
(1 row)
regression=# select format('%s %s', 'foo');
ERROR: too few arguments for format
Why do we throw an
