Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 10:11:52 -0400 From: Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
That was what the pre-7.2 coding did, and it was broken. Types abstime and "char" are counterexamples in one direction, and float8 and numeric are counterexamples in the other. (And that's not even considering user-defined datatypes.) We are not going back to that. ok, thanks for the concise summary. i will try to think of another approach to achieve this kind of consistency for array output. thi ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match