Re: BUG #2917: spi_prepare doesn't accept typename - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: BUG #2917: spi_prepare doesn't accept typename
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Msg-id 200701270233.l0R2XcJ27247@momjian.us
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In response to Re: BUG #2917: spi_prepare doesn't accept typename aliases  (Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>)
Responses Re: BUG #2917: spi_prepare doesn't accept typename aliases
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OK, what is the TODO wording?

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Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> Jim Nasby wrote:
> > On Jan 26, 2007, at 9:31 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> If you wanted to be a bit more ambitious maybe you could change the fact
> >> that this code is throwing away typmod, which means that declarations
> >> like "varchar(32)" would fail to work as expected.  Perhaps it should be
> >> fixed to save the typmods alongside the typioparams and then pass them
> >> to InputFunctionCall instead of passing -1.  On the other hand, we don't
> >> currently enforce typmod for any function input or result arguments, so
> >> maybe it's consistent that spi_prepare arguments ignore typmods too.
> >> Thoughts?
> >
> > I'd like to see us move towards supporting that; both for function 
> > parameters/results as well as inside functions. It'd be nice if both 
> > cases got fixed at once, but IMHO fixing only one now would be better 
> > than fixing none.
> >
> 
> I'm not going to do either in fixing this bug - I think they should be 
> fixed but are a separate issue. These probably belong on the TODO list.
> 
> cheers
> 
> andrew
> 
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