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

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

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From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2010-08-19T15:08:25Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
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.

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