On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 11:28:21AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Liam Stewart <liams@redhat.com> writes:
> > But following up on Tom's latest suggestion, I've implemented it in the
> > yacc grammer rather than in the parser.
>
> Oh, that's a cool idea ... I think. Did you take care that coercion of
> values entries still happens correctly? Given the way that UNION type
> resolution is done, UNIONing first and coercing afterwards will not
> produce the behavior we want. An example: suppose f1 is numeric.
Erk.. hmmm..yes, it's busted :( I'll take a look at that.
> This is all pretty ugly in any case :-( ... we're really starting to
> push the limits of what we can accomplish without redoing the Querytree
> datastructure.
Agreed.
Liam
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