Re: RfD: more powerful "any" types - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: RfD: more powerful "any" types
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Msg-id 13729.1252431142@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: RfD: more powerful "any" types  ("David E. Wheeler" <david@kineticode.com>)
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"David E. Wheeler" <david@kineticode.com> writes:
> On Sep 8, 2009, at 9:25 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> If you don't want any constraints at all on the argument types, you
>> can use "any" (with the quotes, because it's a reserved word :-().

> Oooh, I need to try that. How far back does that behavior go,  
> compatibility-wise?

Further than "anyelement", I think, or at least the same distance.
IIRC it was one of the types we split up "opaque" into.
        regards, tom lane


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