Ashutosh Bapat <ashutosh.bapat@enterprisedb.com> writes:
> The way this patch has been written, it doesn't allow creating tables
> with unknown type columns, which was allowed earlier.
Yes, that's an intentional change; creating such tables (or views) has
never been anything but a foot-gun.
However, I thought the idea was to silently coerce affected columns from
unknown to text. This doesn't look like the behavior we want:
> You might want to add some testcases to test the error report e.g.
> (not necessarily in the same form) create view sv as select
> relname::unknown from pg_class;
> ERROR: column "relname" has type "unknown"
regards, tom lane