Re: [BUGS] Failure to coerce unknown type to specific type

From: "David G(dot) Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Kyotaro HORIGUCHI <horiguchi(dot)kyotaro(at)lab(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp>
Cc: Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [BUGS] Failure to coerce unknown type to specific type
Date: 2015-04-23 09:26:16
Message-ID: CAKFQuwYZ2p2o1xgVgJF-6cQoWW1QmYr1oRUTUbU1AJ1XwdxSjQ@mail.gmail.com
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On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 1:35 AM, Kyotaro HORIGUCHI <
horiguchi(dot)kyotaro(at)lab(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp> wrote:

> Very sorry for the trash..
>
> ===
> Now I found a comment at just where I patched,
>
> > * XXX if the typinput function is not immutable, we really ought to
> > * postpone evaluation of the function call until runtime. But there
> > * is no way to represent a typinput function call as an expression
> > * tree, because C-string values are not Datums. (XXX This *is*
> > * possible as of 7.3, do we want to do it?)
>
> - Is it OK to *now* we can do this?
> + Is it OK to regard that we can do this *now*?
>
>
In this patch or a different one? Does this comment have anything to do
with the concern of this thread?

David J.

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