Re: Re: Use int8 for int4/int2 aggregate accumulators? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Re: Use int8 for int4/int2 aggregate accumulators?
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Msg-id 200108142223.f7EMN7n25686@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: Re: Use int8 for int4/int2 aggregate accumulators?  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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> Note also that there is code in there to figure out whether a targetlist
> satisfies a tuple return datatype; should we also apply automatic type
> conversion to elements of such a list?  It's getting to be more of a
> stretch to say that this is being helpful rather than masking programmer
> error.
> 
> But binary compatibility is easy.  Shall we do that?

If we don't do binary compatible already, we certainly should.

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