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Re: Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Coerce 'unknown' type parameters to the right type in the

Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>

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From: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2010-08-19T16:56:54Z
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On 19/08/10 18:08, Robert Haas wrote:
> 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.

Ok, I reverted the previous patch, and did that instead.

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