Re: RfD: more powerful "any" types - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: RfD: more powerful "any" types
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Msg-id 6990.1252528300@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: RfD: more powerful "any" types  (Hannu Krosing <hannu@2ndQuadrant.com>)
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Hannu Krosing <hannu@2ndQuadrant.com> writes:
> maybe we could (re/ab)use parametrized types and define

> anyelement(1), anyelement(2), ..., anyelement(N) and then match them by
> the number in parentheses

Yeah, that idea occurred to me too.  The immediate practical problem is
that we don't store a typmod for function argument/result types.
I guess we could look into doing that ...
        regards, tom lane


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