Re: unnesting multirange data types

On 2021-Jun-15, Tom Lane wrote:

> It looks to me like the proximate problem is that you should
> have taught pg_dump to skip these new auto-generated functions.
> However, I fail to see why we need auto-generated functions
> for this at all.  Couldn't we have done it with one polymorphic
> function?

I think such a function would need to take anycompatiblerangearray,
which is not something we currently have.

> I think this ought to be reverted and reviewed more carefully.

It seems to me that removing the cast-to-range[] is a sufficient fix,
and that we can do with only the unnest part for pg14; the casts can be
added in 15 (if at all).  That would mean reverting only half the patch.

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