Re: proposal: new polymorphic types - commontype and commontypearray

čt 13. 6. 2019 v 2:37 odesílatel Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> napsal:

> Greg Stark <stark@mit.edu> writes:
> > The proposals I see above are "commontype", "supertype", "anycommontype",
> > and various abbreviations of those. I would humbly add "compatibletype".
> > Fwiw I kind of like commontype.
> > Alternately an argument could be made that length and typing convenience
> > isn't really a factor here since database users never have to type these
> > types. The only place they get written is when defining polymorphic
> > functions which is a pretty uncommon operation.
> > In which case a very explicit "anycompatibletype" may be better.
>
> I could go with "anycompatibletype".  That would lead us to needing
> related names like "anycompatiblearraytype", which is getting annoyingly
> long, but you might be right that people wouldn't have to type it that
> often.
>
> Also, given the precedent of "anyarray" and "anyrange", it might be
> okay to make these just "anycompatible" and "anycompatiblearray".
>

I like anycompatible and anycompatiblearray.

I'll update the patch

Regards

Pavel


> [ wanders away wondering if psql can tab-complete type names in
> function definitions ... ]
>
>                         regards, tom lane
>