Re: RfD: more powerful "any" types

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(at)kineticode(dot)com>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: RfD: more powerful "any" types
Date: 2009-09-08 17:32:22
Message-ID: 13729.1252431142@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"David E. Wheeler" <david(at)kineticode(dot)com> writes:
> On Sep 8, 2009, at 9:25 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> If you don't want any constraints at all on the argument types, you
>> can use "any" (with the quotes, because it's a reserved word :-().

> Oooh, I need to try that. How far back does that behavior go,
> compatibility-wise?

Further than "anyelement", I think, or at least the same distance.
IIRC it was one of the types we split up "opaque" into.

regards, tom lane

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