Re: quote_literal(integer) does not exist

From: "Pavel Stehule" <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "Brendan Jurd" <direvus(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: "Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum" <adsmail(at)wars-nicht(dot)de>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, "Bruce Momjian" <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Subject: Re: quote_literal(integer) does not exist
Date: 2007-11-25 14:02:31
Message-ID: 162867790711250602m401d07c1y4dd753692b6e9abc@mail.gmail.com
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Hello

>
> Having quote_literal take its argument as text was fine whilst we were
> automatically casting arguments, but in 8.3 it seems that
> quote_literal(anyelement) makes a lot more sense than
> quote_literal(text).
>
> So, I wonder why we don't just adapt the internal function to take
> anyelement? It would save a lot of apps from being broken by the move
> to 8.3, and make the function more convenient.
>

It's good idea. I'll look on it.

It needs change of pgproc :(

Pavel

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