Re: proposal: new polymorphic types - commontype and commontypearray

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Dmitry Dolgov <9erthalion6(at)gmail(dot)com>, Greg Stark <stark(at)mit(dot)edu>, David Steele <david(at)pgmasters(dot)net>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: proposal: new polymorphic types - commontype and commontypearray
Date: 2020-03-19 15:44:48
Message-ID: 23462.1584632688@sss.pgh.pa.us
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I wrote:
> Here's a pretty-nearly-final version of the patch.
> In 0001 below, I've left it throwing an error for the case of all
> ANYCOMPATIBLE inputs being unknown, but the documentation fails to
> acknowledge that. 0002 below is a delta patch that switches to the
> other approach of resolving as TEXT. I'm pretty well convinced that
> 0002 is what we should do, so I have not bothered to write a doc
> change that would explain 0001's behavior on this point.

Pushed with the resolve-to-TEXT mod, and some last-minute
polishing from a final re-read of the patch.

regards, tom lane

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