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checking variadic "any" argument in parser - should be array

Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>

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From: Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>
To: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: 2013-01-26T03:52:41Z
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Hello Tom

you did comment

! <----><------><------> * Non-null argument had better be an array.
The parser doesn't
! <----><------><------> * enforce this for VARIADIC ANY functions
(maybe it should?), so
! <----><------><------> * that check uses ereport not just elog.
! <----><------><------> */

So I moved this check to parser.

It is little bit stricter - requests typed NULL instead unknown NULL,
but it can mark error better and early

Regards

Pavel