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Re: Re: proposal: new polymorphic types - commontype and commontypearray

David Steele <david@pgmasters.net>

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From: David Steele <david@pgmasters.net>
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: 2019-03-05T13:38:22Z
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On 2/4/19 4:21 AM, Michael Paquier wrote:
> 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.

This thread has been very quiet for a month.  I agree with Andres [1] 
that we should push this to PG13.

-- 
-David
david@pgmasters.net

[1] 
https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/raw/20190214203752.t4hl574k6jlu4t25%40alap3.anarazel.de

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.