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Re: MySQL search query is not executing in Postgres DB

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>

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From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
To: Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@gmail.com>
Cc: Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>, Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com>, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Greg Stark <stark@mit.edu>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>, premanand <kottiprem@gmail.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2012-11-27T22:09:15Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On 11/27/12 12:07 PM, Merlin Moncure wrote:
> Speaking of polymorphism, why not just implement lpad()'s first
> argument as 'anyelement'?

One of the arguments made here was that lpad(not-text) *should* fail.