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Re: Adding time to DATE type

Peter Eisentraut <e99re41@docs.uu.se>

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From: Peter Eisentraut <e99re41@DoCS.UU.SE>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>, "Thomas G. Lockhart" <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2000-06-13T13:25:29Z
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On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, Tom Lane wrote:

> > * make 'text' constants default to text type (not unknown)

> I think it's fine to assign string literals a type of 'unknown'
> initially.  What we need to do is add a phase of type resolution that
> considers treating them as text, but only after the existing logic fails
> to deduce a type.

Hence "default to"


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