Re: RfD: more powerful "any" types

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(at)kineticode(dot)com>
Cc: Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: RfD: more powerful "any" types
Date: 2009-09-08 16:23:11
Message-ID: 20090908162311.GF549@alvh.no-ip.org
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David E. Wheeler wrote:
> On Sep 8, 2009, at 9:12 AM, Alvaro Herrera wrote:

> >2. does anybody have an idea how to attack it?
>
> Why can't anyelement be freed from this constraint?

Because it would break other uses of it, I think. IIRC the original use
of anyelement was that it would resolve to the element type of an
anyarray argument-or-return type.

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Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.

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