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From Josh Berkus
Subject Re: Another issue in default-values patch: defaults expanded too soon
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In response to Re: Another issue in default-values patch: defaults expanded too soon  (Gregory Stark <stark@enterprisedb.com>)
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Greg,

> Well honestly I don't see a terribly compelling use case for default arguments
> altogether. Obviously they're just a programmer convenience and don't really
> let anyone do anything they couldn't do without them. 

The primary use case is for people who are porting applications from 
other DBMSes.  Which don't support polymorphic arguments in the first place.

--Josh

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