"Dian M Fay" <dian.m.fay@gmail.com> writes:
> Eminently reasonable all around! `git apply` insisted that the v8 patch
> didn't (apply, that is), but `patch -p1` liked it fine. I've put it
> through a few paces and it seems good; what needs to happen next?
I don't see anything else to do except shove it out into the light
of day and see what happens. Hence, pushed.
As I remarked in the commit message:
>> One point that I (tgl) remain slightly uncomfortable with is that we
>> will ignore an implicit RelabelType when deciding if the non-Const input
>> is a plain Var. That makes it a little squishy to argue that the remote
>> should resolve the Const as being of the same type as its Var, because
>> then our Const is not the same type as our Var. However, if we don't do
>> that, then this hack won't work as desired if the user chooses to use
>> varchar rather than text to represent some remote column. That seems
>> useful, so do it like this for now. We might have to give up the
>> RelabelType-ignoring bit if any problems surface.
I think we can await complaints before doing more, but I wanted that
bit on record for anyone perusing the archives.
regards, tom lane
