I wrote:
> Robert Haas writes:
>> Well, that argues for the choice of trying to make them equivalent
>> again, I suppose, but it sounds like there are some nasty edge cases
>> that won't easily be filed down. I think your idea of redefining
>> funcvariadic to be true only for VARIADIC ANY is prob
Robert Haas writes:
> On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 2:23 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> There's also the point that even if we changed ruleutils' behavior
>> now, this would not fix existing dump files that have considered the
>> two forms interchangeable ever since VARIADIC existed. And we
>> generally try ha
On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 2:23 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Robert Haas writes:
>> On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 12:52 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>>> In bug #9817 there's a complaint that the planner fails to consider
>>> these expressions equivalent:
>>> foo('a'::text, 'b'::text)
>>> foo(variadic array['a'::text, 'b':
Andres Freund writes:
> On 2014-04-01 12:52:54 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> We could possibly salvage something by redefining funcvariadic as only
>> being true if VARIADIC was used *and* the function is VARIADIC ANY,
>> so that it returns to not being different for semantically-equivalent
>> cases.
On 2014-04-01 12:52:54 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> We could possibly salvage something by redefining funcvariadic as only
> being true if VARIADIC was used *and* the function is VARIADIC ANY,
> so that it returns to not being different for semantically-equivalent
> cases. This would be a bit messy, s
Robert Haas writes:
> On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 12:52 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> In bug #9817 there's a complaint that the planner fails to consider
>> these expressions equivalent:
>> foo('a'::text, 'b'::text)
>> foo(variadic array['a'::text, 'b'::text])
>> when foo() is declared as taking variadic tex
On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 12:52 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> In bug #9817 there's a complaint that the planner fails to consider
> these expressions equivalent:
> foo('a'::text, 'b'::text)
> foo(variadic array['a'::text, 'b'::text])
> when foo() is declared as taking variadic text[].
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