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Re: Postgres Pain Points 2 ruby / node language drivers

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On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 01:32:33PM +0200, Chris Travers wrote:

>>> My preference is stored procedures plus service locators
>>
>> Would you care to elaborate a little on the latter (service locators) ?
>>
> 
> Sure.  What I prefer to do is to allow for a (cacheable) lookup on the
> basis of some criteria, either:
> 1.  Function name or
> 2.  Function name and first argument type
> 
> This assumes that whichever discovery criteria you are using leads to
> uniquely identifying a function.
> 
> Then from the argument list, I know the names and types of the arguments,
> and the service locator can map them in.  This means:
> 
> 1.  You can expose an API which calls arguments by name rather than just
> position, and
> 2.  You can add arguments of different types without breaking things as
> long as it is agreed that unknown arguments are passed in as NULL.

Maybe I am a bit dense. Can you please give an example ?

Thanks,
Karsten
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