On Wed, Nov 7, 2018 at 10:10 PM Andrew Gierth <and...@tao11.riddles.org.uk> wrote:
> > But you don't need to create more functions, because you can do this: > > select largest(variadic array[1,2,3]); > largest > --------- > 3 > > > As already pointed out, greatest() and least() exist (though they were > added before VARIADIC was, so they don't use it) > > Yeah, I get that my four functions can collapse down to 2. I was just trying to say that if the greatest() and least() expressions did use VARIADIC, that would collapse down to 0 additional functions. :) > Ken> 3) Bonus question--how come all the existing _larger and _smaller > Ken> functions are specific to each data type, as opposed to more > Ken> general smaller/larger functions? > > Because it saves looking up the type comparison function and doing an > indirect call. > > That makes sense--thanks for the explanation! Cheers, Ken -- AGENCY Software A Free Software data system By and for non-profits *http://agency-software.org/ <http://agency-software.org/>* *https://demo.agency-software.org/client <https://demo.agency-software.org/client>* ken.tan...@agency-software.org (253) 245-3801 Subscribe to the mailing list <agency-general-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net?body=subscribe> to learn more about AGENCY or follow the discussion.
