On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 10:22:01AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Noah Misch 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 applicatio
Noah Misch 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
>>being cons
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[], sho
