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From Michael Fuhr
Subject Re: test datatype for ANY
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Msg-id 20050212025121.GA72300@winnie.fuhr.org
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In response to Re: test datatype for ANY  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 03:37:01PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:

> [ thinks about that for awhile... ]  Oh, I see.  The reason this appears
> to work is that plpgsql compiles a separate version of the function for
> each actual parameter datatype that is used in a given session.  So in
> your example, you get a separate version for integer, numeric, etc.

Is that the general case for polymorphic functions?

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Michael Fuhr
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