Re: RfD: more powerful "any" types

From: "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(at)kineticode(dot)com>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: RfD: more powerful "any" types
Date: 2009-09-08 16:26:20
Message-ID: 4C5414F0-9E21-4277-A04A-1541EC4C39A0@kineticode.com
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On Sep 8, 2009, at 9:23 AM, Alvaro Herrera wrote:

>>> 2. does anybody have an idea how to attack it?
>>
>> Why can't anyelement be freed from this constraint?
>
> Because it would break other uses of it, I think. IIRC the original
> use
> of anyelement was that it would resolve to the element type of an
> anyarray argument-or-return type.

Does it still? Need it?

David

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