Re: [PERFORM] typoed column name, but postgres didn't grump

Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> Trying to understand real world cases that this would
> break...would the following now fail w/o explicit cast?
>
> create type x as (a int, b int);
> select f((1,2));

It already does:

test=# create type x as (a int, b int);
CREATE TYPE
test=# select f((1,2));
ERROR: function f(record) does not exist
LINE 1: select f((1,2));
^
HINT: No function matches the given name and argument types. You
might need to add explicit type casts.

-Kevin