Re: proposal: new polymorphic types - commontype and commontypearray

The proposals I see above are "commontype", "supertype", "anycommontype",
and various abbreviations of those. I would humbly add "compatibletype".

Fwiw I kind of like commontype.

Alternately an argument could be made that length and typing convenience
isn't really a factor here since database users never have to type these
types. The only place they get written is when defining polymorphic
functions which is a pretty uncommon operation.

In which case a very explicit "anycompatibletype" may be better.

On Tue., Mar. 5, 2019, 12:38 p.m. Pavel Stehule, <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>
wrote:

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> út 5. 3. 2019 v 15:35 odesílatel Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> napsal:
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>> David Steele <david(at)pgmasters(dot)net> writes:
>> > This thread has been very quiet for a month. I agree with Andres [1]
>> > that we should push this to PG13.
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>> I think the main thing it's blocked on is disagreement on what the
>> type name should be, which is kind of a silly thing to get blocked on,
>> but nonetheless it's important ...
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> I sent some others possible names, but probably this mail was forgotten
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> What about "ctype" like shortcut for common type? carraytype,
> cnonarraytype?
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> Regards
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> Pavel
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>> regards, tom lane
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