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Re: proposal: new polymorphic types - commontype and commontypearray

Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>

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From: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
To: Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2019-02-04T02:21:05Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 05:08:03PM +0100, Pavel Stehule wrote:
> maybe "supertype". It is one char shorter .. somewhere is term
> "supperclass, ..."
> 
> In Czech language this term is short, "nadtyp", but probably it is not
> acceptable :)

Moved to next CF.
--
Michael

Commits

  1. Introduce "anycompatible" family of polymorphic types.

  2. Refactor our checks for valid function and aggregate signatures.

  3. Rearrange pseudotypes.c to get rid of duplicative code.