> Thomas Lockhart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Perhaps it'd be a better idea for the option of a freebie conversion > >> to be checked earlier, say immediately after we discover there is no > >> exact match for the function name and input type. Thomas, what do you > >> think? > > > We *really* need that catalog lookup first. Otherwise, we will never be > > able to override the hardcoded compatibility assumptions in that > > matching routine. > > Sure, I said *after* we fail to find an exact match. But the "freebie" > match is for a function name that matches a type name and is > binary-compatible with the source type. That's not a weak constraint. > ISTM that interpretation should take priority over interpretations that > involve more than one level of transformation.
That sounds very reasonable to me. Andreas ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org
