Re: IN and ANY - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: IN and ANY
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Msg-id 7837.1078285251@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: IN and ANY  (Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>)
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Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu> writes:
> That would be nice and simple and clean, except that postgres's type system
> doesn't work that way. It works backwards from every other language. Instead
> of every variable and function return value having a rigid type and forcing
> the interpretation of the surrounding expression, postgres seems to work top
> down. 

[blinks...]  I don't think so.
        regards, tom lane


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