Do a better job of selecting candidates among functions

 when no exact match.
Clean up elog error messages.

src/backend/parser/parse_func.c

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
  *
  *
  * IDENTIFICATION
- *	  $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/backend/parser/parse_func.c,v 1.38 1999/02/13 23:17:08 momjian Exp $
+ *	  $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/backend/parser/parse_func.c,v 1.39 1999/02/23 07:51:53 thomas Exp $
  *
  *-------------------------------------------------------------------------
  */
@@ -828,12 +828,13 @@ func_select_candidate(int nargs,
 		}
 	}
 
+	if (ncandidates == 1)
+		return candidates->args;
+
 /*
  * Still too many candidates?
  * Try assigning types for the unknown columns.
  */
-	if (ncandidates > 1)
-	{
 	for (i = 0; i < nargs; i++)
 	{
 		if (input_typeids[i] == UNKNOWNOID)
@@ -865,8 +866,9 @@ func_select_candidate(int nargs,
 						slot_type = current_type;
 						candidates = current_candidate;
 					}
-						else
+					else if (IsPreferredType(slot_category, slot_type))
 					{
+						 candidates->next = current_candidate->next;
 					}
 				}
 			}
@@ -886,7 +888,6 @@ func_select_candidate(int nargs,
 		 current_candidate != NULL;
 		 current_candidate = current_candidate->next)
 		ncandidates++;
-	}
 
 	if (ncandidates == 1)
 		return candidates->args;
@@ -1012,7 +1013,7 @@ func_get_detail(char *funcname,
 		{
 			tp = typeidType(oid_array[0]);
 			if (typeTypeFlag(tp) == 'c')
-				elog(ERROR, "func_get_detail: No such attribute or function '%s'", funcname);
+				elog(ERROR, "No such attribute or function '%s'", funcname);
 		}
 	}
 	else