Re: Question about format_type function

Tony Caduto wrote:
> Would it not be possible to add another param to the function like I mentioned
> and keep everyone happy?  Users coming from MS SQL server look puzzled when
> they see the huge Character Varying(n) in a admin tool.
>
> I have not programmed in C since 1993, but I know in pascal you can have a
> parameter for a function be set as a const, that way it would remain
> compatible with the current function, then some logic could be added to make
> the long names be short? or even a overloaded function would be ok.
>
> I have got around this by using  a case statment but it would be so nice if I
> could just call that function and have the results look like what users see
> in tools such as MS SQL servers enterprise manager.

We don't have function overloading like that in C, so we would need a
new function and have to keep the old one around too.

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