| From: | Philip Warner <pjw(at)rhyme(dot)com(dot)au> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, Oliver Elphick <olly(at)lfix(dot)co(dot)uk>, Dave Page <dpage(at)vale-housing(dot)co(dot)uk>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: OPAQUE and 7.2-7.3 upgrade |
| Date: | 2002-09-14 04:02:08 |
| Message-ID: | 5.1.0.14.0.20020914135948.063ddd08@mail.rhyme.com.au |
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At 12:11 AM 13/09/2002 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>Well, yeah. 7.3 is trying to tighten up on exactly that point.
The problem is that as implemented you have only half of the solution; you
also need a way for postgresql to determine the 'real' arguments and return
type of a function. If the building blocks for pseudo-RTTI can be put in
place, then I think that would be a great step forward, *and* solve the
current problem.
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