On Fri, Jul 15, 2022 at 12:17:51PM -0700, David G. Johnston wrote: > On Fri, Jul 15, 2022 at 11:40 AM Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> wrote: > > On 2022-Jul-15, Justin Pryzby wrote: > > > > > It seems a bit odd that it's impossible to use merge with prepared statements > > > without specifically casting the source types (which I did now to continue my > > > experiment). > > > > I have no comments on this. Maybe it can be improved, but I don't know > > how. > > Not tested, but the example prepare command fails to make use of the > optional data types specification. Using that should remove the need to > cast the parameter placeholder within the query itself.