On Mon, May 09, 2011 at 11:32:28PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
To be concrete, consider the function array_append(anyarray, anyelement)
yielding anyarray. Suppose we have a domain D over int[] and the call
array_append(var_of_type_D, 42). If we automatically downcast the
variable to int[], should
Noah Misch n...@leadboat.com writes:
On Mon, May 09, 2011 at 11:32:28PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
So we basically had three alternatives to make it better:
* downcast to the array type, which would possibly silently
break applications that were relying on the function result
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 10:22:01AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
Noah Misch n...@leadboat.com writes:
On Mon, May 09, 2011 at 11:32:28PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
So we basically had three alternatives to make it better:
* downcast to the array type, which would possibly silently
break
