Re: Polymorphic types vs. domains

Tom Lane wrote:
> The proximate cause of this complaint:
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2008-12/msg00283.php
> seems to be that the polymorphic-type code doesn't consider a domain
> over an enum type to match an ANYENUM function argument.
>
> ISTM this is probably wrong: we need such a domain to act like its base
> type for matching purposes. There is an analogous problem with a domain
> over an array type failing to match ANYARRAY; conversely, such a domain
> is considered to match ANYNONARRAY which it likely should not.
>
> Comments? If this is agreed to be a bug, should we consider
> back-patching it? (I'd vote not, I think, because the behavioral
> change could conceivably break some apps that work now.)

This has not been addressed yet.

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