Re: change in behaviour for format_type() call - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Michael Paquier
Subject Re: change in behaviour for format_type() call
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Msg-id 20180302040119.GA2259@paquier.xyz
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In response to Re: change in behaviour for format_type() call  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>)
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On Thu, Mar 01, 2018 at 02:54:22PM -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> Actually, this patch still wasn't quite right: although it fixed
>> one aspect of the behavior, it still produced identical results
>> for typemod NULL and typemod -1, which as the function's comment
>> explains is not what should happen.  I tweaked the logic to look
>> as much as possible like before, and added a regression test.
>
> Thanks!

Thanks Tom.  Yes, we focused on not changing any existing behavior with
this patch.  So this report was a bug.
--
Michael

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