Himanshu Upadhyaya <upadhyaya.himan...@gmail.com> writes:
> I observed that we have inaccurate comment in
> enforce_generic_type_consistency.
Fair point, but that's not the only old comment that's not being careful
about it. I applied the attached.
regards, tom lane
diff --git a/src/backend/parser/parse_coerce.c b/src/backend/parser/parse_coerce.c
index 1b11cf731c..2ffe47026b 100644
--- a/src/backend/parser/parse_coerce.c
+++ b/src/backend/parser/parse_coerce.c
@@ -2155,8 +2155,8 @@ enforce_generic_type_consistency(const Oid *actual_arg_types,
else
{
/*
- * Only way to get here is if all the polymorphic args have
- * UNKNOWN inputs
+ * Only way to get here is if all the family-1 polymorphic
+ * arguments have UNKNOWN inputs.
*/
ereport(ERROR,
(errcode(ERRCODE_DATATYPE_MISMATCH),
@@ -2254,10 +2254,10 @@ enforce_generic_type_consistency(const Oid *actual_arg_types,
else
{
/*
- * Only way to get here is if all the ANYCOMPATIBLE args have
- * UNKNOWN inputs. Resolve to TEXT as select_common_type()
- * would do. That doesn't license us to use TEXTRANGE,
- * though.
+ * Only way to get here is if all the family-2 polymorphic
+ * arguments have UNKNOWN inputs. Resolve to TEXT as
+ * select_common_type() would do. That doesn't license us to
+ * use TEXTRANGE, though.
*/
anycompatible_typeid = TEXTOID;
anycompatible_array_typeid = TEXTARRAYOID;
@@ -2269,7 +2269,7 @@ enforce_generic_type_consistency(const Oid *actual_arg_types,
}
}
- /* replace polymorphic types by selected types */
+ /* replace family-2 polymorphic types by selected types */
for (int j = 0; j < nargs; j++)
{
Oid decl_type = declared_arg_types[j];
@@ -2285,11 +2285,11 @@ enforce_generic_type_consistency(const Oid *actual_arg_types,
}
/*
- * If we had any UNKNOWN inputs for polymorphic arguments, re-scan to
- * assign correct types to them.
+ * If we had any UNKNOWN inputs for family-1 polymorphic arguments,
+ * re-scan to assign correct types to them.
*
* Note: we don't have to consider unknown inputs that were matched to
- * ANYCOMPATIBLE-family arguments, because we forcibly updated their
+ * family-2 polymorphic arguments, because we forcibly updated their
* declared_arg_types[] positions just above.
*/
if (have_poly_unknowns)
