Re: BUG: text(varchar) truncates at 31 bytes

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> Perhaps it'd be a better idea for the option of a freebie conversion
> to be checked earlier, say immediately after we discover there is no
> exact match for the function name and input type.  Thomas, what do you
> think?

We *really* need that catalog lookup first. Otherwise, we will never be
able to override the hardcoded compatibility assumptions in that
matching routine. Once we push that routine into a system catalog, we'll
have more flexibility to tune things after the fact.

Without the explicit function call, things would work just fine for the
example at hand, right?

I could put in a dummy passthrough routine. But that seems a bit ugly.
                         - Thomas