On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 2:40 AM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > After thinking about it for awhile, I don't like the notation anyway > --- it's not immediately obvious that a cast to anyelement should mean > something like that. What seems more sensible to me is to introduce > a function to get the type of an expression, so that you could write > something like
We already have such a function, pg_typeof(). I submitted a patch for it in the November commitfest, and you committed it. [1] Or is that not the sort of function you were thinking of? Cheers, BJ [1] http://git.postgresql.org/?p=postgresql.git;a=commit;h=1a850edf036a1c7dbb9f4fcfeae1e5f2c68cf049 -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
