Re: array support patch phase 1 patch

Tom Lane wrote:
> That is surely not what you intended. The test must be whether arg1 and
> arg2 are (separately) coercible to the operator's two input types.
> Moreover, the test must not be symmetric, any more than
> IsBinaryCoercible is. You can coerce int[] to ANYARRAY but not vice
> versa.

Dooh! Yeah, I can see that now.

>
> A bigger problem is that I doubt this will actually work. Most of the
> places that call compatible_oper will then proceed to call the function
> from specialized code that does not bother with consing up an expression
> tree --- so a polymorphic function is going to fail anyway...

Well, not necessarily in the case of array_type-to-ANYARRAY. In that
case the element type information in the array itself gives the function
all the context it needs (if it looks there, which in the case of
array_eq at least it does). Maybe it makes sense to only allow the
array_type-to-ANYARRAY case?

Joe