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Old 04-12-2008, 07:26 AM
Peter Eisentraut
 
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Default Re: Implicit casts with generic arrays

Am Dienstag, 27. Februar 2007 19:50 schrieb Tom Lane:
> Seems basically we'd want to not cast unknown to anyarray unless there
> is some additional bit of context suggesting that that's the right thing.
> But what should that extra requirement be? Can we go as far as not
> doing this cast implicitly at all?


We could say that unknown is not taken as anyarray input if the entire
function/operator argument list consists of anyelement or anyarray. But that
might be even harder to comprehend. With the ARRAY[...] syntax available,
converting unknown to anyarray might be altogether unnecessary.

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