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Re: proposal: new polymorphic types - commontype and commontypearray

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>
Cc: Dmitry Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>, Greg Stark <stark@mit.edu>, David Steele <david@pgmasters.net>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2020-03-18T01:45:35Z
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I wrote:
> The cfbot will be unhappy at this point, but I need to rebase the
> main patch again ...

And rebased.  Still not quite happy about some of the details in
enforce_generic_type_consistency, and I've not looked at the test
cases or documentation at all.  But this should make the cfbot
happy.

			regards, tom lane

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.