On Thursday, May 12, 2016, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','t...@sss.pgh.pa.us');>> wrote:
> > So what I've wanted to do for some time is invent a new expression node > type that represents any one of these functions and can be reverse-listed > in the same format that the input had. The attached proposed patch does > that. (I'm not particularly in love with the node type name > ValueFunction; anybody got a better idea?) > > SQL99DateTimeFunction (or roughly whenever they were introduced)? I agree with the premise. I took notice of it recently in explain output on these lists using current_date. That example read like ('now'::cstring)::date which was really odd since I was at least expecting text as the intermediate cast... David J.