Re: [PATCH] Bug in XPATH() if expression returns a scalar value

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Florian Pflug <fgp(at)phlo(dot)org>
Cc: PG Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Bug in XPATH() if expression returns a scalar value
Date: 2011-06-13 19:24:49
Message-ID: 1307993090.5621.0.camel@vanquo.pezone.net
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On ons, 2011-06-08 at 10:14 +0200, Florian Pflug wrote:
> But then you lose the ability to evaluate user-supplied
> XPath expressions, because there's no way of telling which of these
> function to use.

Perhaps having both variants, one type-safe and one not, would work. I
don't agree with doing away with type-safety completely for the sake of
convenience.

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