| From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: RfD: more powerful "any" types |
| Date: | 2009-09-08 16:32:50 |
| Message-ID: | 20090908163250.GG549@alvh.no-ip.org |
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> > I'm seeking more powerful "any" pseudotypes.
>
> 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 :-().
> If you want some constraints but not "anyelement", please be more
> specific about what you want.
That would work, except that plpgsql and SQL don't like it:
ERROR: PL/pgSQL functions cannot accept type "any"
ERROR: SQL functions cannot have arguments of type "any"
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Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
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