Re: [HACKERS] Re: DBD::Pg installation seems to fail with 7.1 libs

Frank Jördens wrote:
>
> Thomas Lockhart wrote:
> >
> > > Thomas, you've been muttering about altering the type resolution rules
> > > so that "unknown" will be treated as "text" when all else fails. Are
> > > you planning to commit such a thing for 7.1? If not, I'll probably have
> > > to hack up parse_coerce.c's select_common_type(), along the lines of
> >
> > I'm *finally* getting several patches together, to do the following
> > things:
> >
> > o Fix the type resolution for unknown function arguments to fall back to
> > "text" or a string type, if available. Previously discussed.
>
> Can this be expected to be found in the 7.1 snapshot release anytime
> soon? Otherwise I would have to continue developing my app on 7.0.x,

works a treat with the changes committed last thursday :)

- Frank