On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 1:06 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > Also, right at the moment it's not clear to me whether there are any > other cases besides integer literal vs smallint argument. I think > that's the only particularly surprising case within the numeric > hierarchy --- and for non-numeric types, the literal is generally going > to start out "unknown" so the whole problem doesn't arise. I feel > uncomfortable trying to invent general-purpose solutions to problems > we have only one instance of ...
The other case that comes up regularly is someone trying to pass some kind of number to a function such as LPAD(). There is only one LPAD() so no ambiguity exists, but PostgreSQL doesn't even see that there's a candidate. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
