Re: actualised funcs typmod patch - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: actualised funcs typmod patch
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Msg-id 2278.1258484048@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: actualised funcs typmod patch  (Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>)
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Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com> writes:
> 2009/11/17 Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>:
>> There are other issues but these are the ones I think we'd need to
>> resolve before not after putting in function typmods.  It'd be
>> extremely painful and non-backwards-compatible to change our minds
>> later about function identity or coercion rules.

> I am sure, so this patch cannot break any current code.

My point is that if we release 8.5 with these semantics (which as far
as I can tell were not designed, but just fell out of what made for the
shortest patch) then we'll be stuck with them thereafter.
        regards, tom lane


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