Re: VARIANT / ANYTYPE datatype

From: "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(at)kineticode(dot)com>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: VARIANT / ANYTYPE datatype
Date: 2011-05-04 23:23:31
Message-ID: DCF1BA81-2D8F-4719-8CD5-FD28CA14F6E4@kineticode.com
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On May 4, 2011, at 3:04 PM, Alvaro Herrera wrote:

> As someone commented downthread, they also want to have things such as a
> "typeof" operator. It could be used in (say) a plpgsql function to
> choose different branches of code.

FWIW, pg_typeof(any) has been in core since 9.0.

Best,

David

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