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From Gregory Stark
Subject Re: Adding a typmod field to Const et al
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In response to Adding a typmod field to Const et al  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: Adding a typmod field to Const et al  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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"Tom Lane" <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:

>     ArrayExpr:    should adopt the same behavior as Coalesce and
>             similar nodes, ie, if all the elements show the
>             same type/typmod then return that typmod
>             instead of -1
...
> Comments, objections?

I'm not entirely convinced by this one. Does that mean expressions like this
would throw an error if col1 was declared as a numeric(1)?
ARRAY[col1] || 10



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