Re: dblink: add polymorphic functions. - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Joe Conway
Subject Re: dblink: add polymorphic functions.
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In response to Re: dblink: add polymorphic functions.  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Re: dblink: add polymorphic functions.
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On 07/29/2015 07:58 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> We can definitely do
> 
> SELECT x::any_single_unreserved_word(some_expression) FROM ...
> 
> because that's actually not something the grammar needs to
> distinguish from type-with-a-typmod; we can deal with the special
> case in LookupTypeName.  It's just a matter of picking a word
> people like.

What about just TYPE then?
   SELECT x::TYPE(some_expression) FROM ...   SELECT CAST (x AS TYPE(some_expression)) FROM ...

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Joe Conway
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