Re: xmlconcat as variadic function

On Mon, 2008-11-17 at 19:34 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> > Tom Lane wrote:
> >> Well, for example pg_catalog.xmlconcat(...) will behave differently if
> >> we make this change.
> 
> > Uh, because there is no pg_catalog.xmlconcat() in 8.3.  Why is that 
> > relevant?
> 
> My point is it's a user-visible change --- maybe a subtle one, but still
> a change that in principle could break some app somewhere --- and no
> good reason has been put forward for making it.

Uhh... what user is going to be calling pg_catalog.xmlconcat() in any
version? Wouldn't it be public.xml... or other namespace?

Joshua D. Drake

> 
>             regards, tom lane
> 
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