Re: PostgresSQL 7.1.3 not parsing SELECT portion of SQL correctly

Is this a TODO item?  Seems so.  Comments?

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Tom Lane wrote:
> "Mark Jeacocke" <mbj@ezytools.com> writes:
> > select DISTINCT TABLEID, '' AS ALIAS from TABLE; :FAILS
>
> We get this type of complaint regularly.  Perhaps DISTINCT should
> resolve unknown-type inputs to "text", much as we do with CASE
> and UNION constructs when we see an untyped literal.  Thoughts?
>
>             regards, tom lane
>
> PS: in the meantime, Mark, try casting the literal to text.
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