Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> writes: > On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 11:32 AM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: >> I think it wouldn't take too much code to defend against this in >> transformArrayExpr, but I'm a tad worried about whether there are >> similar cases elsewhere. The generic problem is that we suppose that >> different values are compatible if they have the same type OID, but >> for RECORD types that's really not true.
> We've argued about this before: it's not really true for array types > either. Yeah, I'm starting to feel that the typmod hack for this is just not good enough. However ... > Nevertheless, there's not much hope of better than a localized fix for > this particular bug. This is a crash in released branches, so we have to have a back-patchable fix. Anything that gets out from under the typmod issue isn't going to be back-patchable. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers