Nikhil Sontakke wrote:
> > > PFA, patch which uses find_coercion_pathway to find a direct
> > > COERCION_PATH_FUNC function and uses that if it is available. Or is there
> > a
> > > better approach? Seems to handle the above issue with this patch.
> >
> > +1
> >
> > I thing, so some values should by cached, current patch could by slow.
>
>
> Agreed, it can slow things down a bit especially since we are only
> interested in the COERCION_PATH_FUNC case. What we need is a much simpler
> pathway function which searches in the SysCache and returns back with the
> valid/invalid castfunc immediately.
>
> PFA, version 2.0 of this patch with these changes in place. I could have
> added a generic function in parse_coerce.c, but thought the use case was
> restricted to plpgsql and hence I have kept it within pl_exec.c for now.
Where are we on this? 8.5?
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