| From: | Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Florian Pflug <fgp(at)phlo(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Range Types, constructors, and the type system |
| Date: | 2011-07-07 03:08:58 |
| Message-ID: | 1310008138.3012.144.camel@jdavis |
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On Wed, 2011-07-06 at 15:14 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> > I ran into problems with that before... I think with the I/O functions.
> > I don't think that's a problem here, but I thought I'd ask.
>
> I think it'd probably be all right to do that. The places where you
> might find shortcuts being taken are where functions are called directly
> by C code, such as I/O function calls --- but these constructors should
> only ever get invoked from SQL queries, no?
Perhaps index expressions/predicates as well (which are also fine). I
was more worried about some case that I hadn't thought of.
Regards,
Jeff Davis
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