Re: BUG #2917: spi_prepare doesn't accept typename

OK, what is the TODO wording?

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Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> Jim Nasby wrote:
> > On Jan 26, 2007, at 9:31 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> If you wanted to be a bit more ambitious maybe you could change the fact
> >> that this code is throwing away typmod, which means that declarations
> >> like "varchar(32)" would fail to work as expected. Perhaps it should be
> >> fixed to save the typmods alongside the typioparams and then pass them
> >> to InputFunctionCall instead of passing -1. On the other hand, we don't
> >> currently enforce typmod for any function input or result arguments, so
> >> maybe it's consistent that spi_prepare arguments ignore typmods too.
> >> Thoughts?
> >
> > I'd like to see us move towards supporting that; both for function
> > parameters/results as well as inside functions. It'd be nice if both
> > cases got fixed at once, but IMHO fixing only one now would be better
> > than fixing none.
> >
>
> I'm not going to do either in fixing this bug - I think they should be
> fixed but are a separate issue. These probably belong on the TODO list.
>
> cheers
>
> andrew
>
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