Re: [HACKERS] empty concatenate

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org
Cc: zakkr@zf.jcu.cz (Karel Zak - Zakkr), sszabo@bigpanda.com
Date: 1999-12-24T00:44:20Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
"D'Arcy" "J.M." Cain <darcy@druid.net> writes:
>> ! Why is textcat() (and other) function called if result from this 
>> function is ignored, it is bad spending (my CPU is not boredom). See 
>> my 'C' example in my first letter...  

> This is the issue no matter which side of the debate you are on.

"Debate"?  There's no debate --- everybody agrees that the current
fmgr interface doesn't handle NULLs reasonably.  It's just a matter
of finding time to fix it.  It's a fairly large project, given the
amount of code that needs to be touched.

			regards, tom lane