On Sun, 2007-09-09 at 23:22 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > In the short run it might be best to do it in scan.l after all. A few > minutes' thought about what it'd take to delay the decisions till later > yields a depressingly large number of changes; and we do not have time > to be developing mostly-cosmetic patches for 8.3. Given that > database_encoding is frozen for any one DB at the moment, and that that > is unlikely to change in the near future, insisting on a solution that > allows it to vary is probably unreasonable at this stage of the game. >
Sounds reasonable to me. Regards, Jeff Davis ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match