Re: [PATCH] Determining return type of polymorphic function

Forgot to attach it, oops.

On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 09:56:47AM +0200, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
> Ok, here's a patch (with documentation update). I checked the
> regression tests (looked over, not run) but nothing there appears to
> test this anyway. I looked through all the datatype input functions but
> none of them even use the second argument except array and record types
> and they're explicitly unchanged.
>
> Note: the logic could be simplified if we could assume composite types
> can't have a non-zero typelem. From looking at the code, I think it may
> be assumed in places and I'm fairly sure it's non-sensical, but is it
> explicitly forbidden?
>
> I thought of writing a few simple tests but no language will accept
> cstring arguments except C. It can be added if you think it's worth
> regression testing.
>
> Unless there are other comments I'll post this to pgsql-patches
> later...

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