Re: Re: Use int8 for int4/int2 aggregate accumulators?

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Re: Use int8 for int4/int2 aggregate accumulators?
Date: 2001-08-14 22:23:07
Message-ID: 200108142223.f7EMN7n25686@candle.pha.pa.us
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> Note also that there is code in there to figure out whether a targetlist
> satisfies a tuple return datatype; should we also apply automatic type
> conversion to elements of such a list? It's getting to be more of a
> stretch to say that this is being helpful rather than masking programmer
> error.
>
> But binary compatibility is easy. Shall we do that?

If we don't do binary compatible already, we certainly should.

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