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Tom Lane 83a5641945 Provide more-specific error details/hints for function lookup failures. ... Up to now we've contented ourselves with a one-size-fits-all error hint when we fail to find any match to a function or procedure call. That was mostly okay in the beginning, but it was never great, and since the introduction of named arguments it's really not adequate. We at least ought to distinguish "function name doesn't exist" from "function name exists, but not with those argument names". And the rules for named-argument matching are arcane enough that some more detail seems warranted if we match the argument names but the call still doesn't work. This patch creates a framework for dealing with these problems: FuncnameGetCandidates and related code will now pass back a bitmask of flags showing how far the match succeeded. This allows a considerable amount of granularity in the reports. The set-bits-in-a-bitmask approach means that when there are multiple candidate functions, the report will reflect the match(es) that got the furthest, which seems correct. Also, we can avoid mentioning "maybe add casts" unless failure to match argument types is actually the issue. Extend the same return-a-bitmask approach to OpernameGetCandidates. The issues around argument names don't apply to operator syntax, but it still seems worth distinguishing between "there is no operator of that name" and "we couldn't match the argument types". While at it, adjust these messages and related ones to more strictly separate "detail" from "hint", following our message style guidelines' distinction between those. Reported-by: Dominique Devienne <ddevienne@gmail.com> Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> Reviewed-by: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1756041.1754616558@sss.pgh.pa.us		8 months ago
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src	Provide more-specific error details/hints for function lookup failures.	8 months ago
KNOWN_BUGS	Remove extra newlines at end and beginning of files, add missing newlines	16 years ago
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Makefile	Remove distprep	3 years ago
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