Re: Domains versus polymorphic functions, redux - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Domains versus polymorphic functions, redux
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Msg-id 11302.1306257221@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Domains versus polymorphic functions, redux  (Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@gmail.com>)
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Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@gmail.com> writes:
> On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 11:12 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> 1. If a domain type is passed to an ANYARRAY argument, automatically
>> downcast it to its base type (which of course had better then be an
>> array).

> Does that mean that plpgsql %type variable declarations will see the
> base type (and miss any constraint checks?).

No, this has nothing to do with %type.  What's at stake is matching to
functions/operators that are declared to take ANYARRAY.

> #2a seems cleaner to me (superficially).  Got an example of a behavior
> you think is changed?

See my response to David Wheeler.
        regards, tom lane


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