Re: Better error message for select_common_type() - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

"Peter Eisentraut" <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:

> peter=# values(0,1), (1::bigint,2), ('text'::text,3);
> ERROR:  42804: VALUES types bigint at position 2 and text at position 3 
> cannot be matched in instance 1
>
> I'm not sure about the terminology "position" and "instance"; they're 
> just two coordinates to get at the problem.

Wouldn't that just be column 1 in rows 2 and 3?

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