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From Robert Haas
Subject Re: Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Coerce 'unknown' type parameters to the right type in the
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In response to Re: Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Coerce 'unknown' type parameters to the right type in the  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Coerce 'unknown' type parameters to the right type in the  ("David E. Wheeler" <david@kineticode.com>)
Re: Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Coerce 'unknown' type parameters to the right type in the  (Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>)
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On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 9:47 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Another possibility is for EXECUTE USING to coerce any unknowns to TEXT
> before it calls the parser at all.  This would square with the typical
> default assumption for unknown literals, and it would avoid having to
> have any semantics changes below the SPI call.

That seems more intuitive than just chucking an error.

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Robert Haas
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