Richard Poole <richard.poole@vi.net> writes:
> How about a feature in psql which would read something like '%type' and
> convert it to the appropriate thing before it passed it to the backend?
That's just about what Ian's patch does, only it does it during backend
parsing instead of in the client. It seems to me that most of the
arguments against it apply either way.
If we are going to have it, the backend is certainly the right place to
do it, rather than adding a huge amount of new smarts to psql.
regards, tom lane