Joe Conway wrote:
> On 07/30/2015 09:51 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> > Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com> writes:
> >> What about just TYPE then?
> >
> >> SELECT x::TYPE(some_expression) FROM ...
> >> SELECT CAST (x AS TYPE(some_expression)) FROM ...
>
> > The main limitation of this patch is that it won't work for call sites
> > that pass pstate == NULL to LookupTypeName. There are a fair number
> > of them, some of which wouldn't care because they could never invoke
> > this notation anyway, but for others we'd need to do some work to cons
> > up a suitable pstate.
>
> Sorry it took so long for me to get back to this, but any reason the
> attached won't work?
So, is this going anywhere?
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