From: | Bruce Momjian <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu (Thomas G(dot) Lockhart) |
Cc: | hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] regproc fix |
Date: | 1998-10-02 14:45:23 |
Message-ID: | 199810021445.KAA05634@candle.pha.pa.us |
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> > One remaining problem is that you have to supply the oid in quotes,
> > because regproc has to get a string, not an int. Perhaps we need
> > another regprocin that allows int4 or char*, but I don't think you can
> > allow two input functions for a type.
> >
> > Perhaps we can just leave it. We also output the proname, even if
> > they used the oid as input.
>
> The int4 vs. string issue would be easily solved by having a routine
> regproc(int4), which the new type coersion stuff would use
> automatically.
But we define a pg_type.typinput. What do we put in there. I assume we
can leave it alone, and allow the type coersion stuff to over-ride it.
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