The small context diff below corrects what seems to be an oversight in

fmgr.h - it's discouraged to access fcinfo directly but there is no
macro to get the number of arguments passed to the function. Checking
the number of arguments is often useful when you have a function which
can be called like:

 func('arg');
 func(null);
 func();

all mapping to the same C function.

the macro has a function-like appearance to match the other PG_*
macros.

Lee Kindness.

diff --git a/src/include/fmgr.h b/src/include/fmgr.h
index a421ba903ac0e2654f1326887b61a0866f57c8cc..0e58167589ae1a0e505695336a38b43245939464 100644 (file)
--- a/src/include/fmgr.h
+++ b/src/include/fmgr.h
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
  * Portions Copyright (c) 1996-2002, PostgreSQL Global Development Group
  * Portions Copyright (c) 1994, Regents of the University of California
  *
- * $Id: fmgr.h,v 1.24 2002/09/04 20:31:36 momjian Exp $
+ * $Id: fmgr.h,v 1.25 2002/09/12 00:26:42 momjian Exp $
  *
  *-------------------------------------------------------------------------
  */
@@ -115,6 +115,11 @@ extern void fmgr_info_copy(FmgrInfo *dstinfo, FmgrInfo *srcinfo,
 /* Standard parameter list for fmgr-compatible functions */
 #define PG_FUNCTION_ARGS       FunctionCallInfo fcinfo
 
+/*
+ * Get number of arguments passed to function.
+ */
+#define PG_NARGS() (fcinfo->nargs)
+
 /*
  * If function is not marked "proisstrict" in pg_proc, it must check for
  * null arguments using this macro.  Do not try to GETARG a null argument!