Re: OPAQUE and 7.2-7.3 upgrade - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Philip Warner
Subject Re: OPAQUE and 7.2-7.3 upgrade
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Msg-id 5.1.0.14.0.20020914135948.063ddd08@mail.rhyme.com.au
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In response to Re: OPAQUE and 7.2-7.3 upgrade  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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At 12:11 AM 13/09/2002 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>Well, yeah.  7.3 is trying to tighten up on exactly that point.

The problem is that as implemented you have only half of the solution; you 
also need a way for postgresql to determine the 'real' arguments and return 
type of a function. If the building blocks for pseudo-RTTI can be put in 
place, then I think that would be a great step forward, *and* solve the 
current problem.





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