Re: TypeInfoCache

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Oliver Jowett <oliver(at)opencloud(dot)com>
Cc: Daniel Migowski <dmigowski(at)ikoffice(dot)de>, Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, pgsql-jdbc(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: TypeInfoCache
Date: 2007-12-20 01:25:44
Message-ID: 1811.1198113944@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Oliver Jowett <oliver(at)opencloud(dot)com> writes:
> Daniel Migowski wrote:
>> I think a VARCHAR(50) and text are not interchangeable.

> But a "varchar" (with no limit) and "text" *are* interchangeable, which
> is why we identify text as VARCHAR

But note that varchar-with-no-limit is itself a Postgres-ism: it's
not allowed by the standard.

regards, tom lane

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