Commit 5e74a427 authored by Andrew Dunstan's avatar Andrew Dunstan

Document incompatibility of comparison expressions with VARIADIC array arguments

COALESCE, GREATEST and LEAST all look like functions taking variable
numbers of arguments, but in fact they are not functions, and so
VARIADIC array arguments don't work with them. Add a note to the docs
explaining this fact.

The consensus is not to try to make this work, but just to document the
limitation.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAFj8pRCaAtuXuRtvXf5GmPbAVriUQrNMo7-=TXUFN025S31R_w@mail.gmail.com
parent 32b8f0b0
......@@ -12481,6 +12481,15 @@ SELECT setval('foo', 42, false); <lineannotation>Next <function>nextval</func
</para>
</tip>
<note>
<para>
Although <token>COALESCE</token>, <token>GREATEST</token>, and
<token>LEAST</token> are syntactically similar to functions, they are
not strictly functions, and thus cannot be used with explicit
<token>VARIADIC</token> array arguments.
</para>
</note>
<sect2 id="functions-case">
<title><literal>CASE</literal></title>
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