Merlin Moncure <[email protected]> writes:
> ... I think if you relaxed
> the function sigs of a few functions on this page
> (http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.2/interactive/functions-string.html),
> most reported problems would go away.
That's an interesting way of approaching it. Do we have any data on
exactly which functions people do complain about?
> One thing that worries me is introducing ambiguous cases where
> previously there weren't any though.
Right, but at least we'd be confining the ambiguity to a small number
of function names. Tweaking the casting rules could have a lot of
unforeseen consequences.
regards, tom lane
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