Adriaan van Os wrote:
> >> However, min(VARCHAROID) and max(VARCHAROID) return TEXTOID as a
> >> result type.
> >
> > Yea, they are internally treated as very similar types.
>
> But "internally treated as very similar" is still not "same as
> argument type". Computing requires exactness.
Aside from the apparent discrepancy between the documentation and the
actual behavior, is there an actual use case where this is a problem?
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Peter Eisentraut
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