Re: Expression indexes ignore typmod of expression

On 2014-04-25 17:19:00 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> > On 2014-04-25 17:05:26 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> I think this is just a hangover from
> >> before we paid much attention to expression typmods at all, and
> >> propose the attached patch.
> 
> > Any chance it could cause problems with stored trees being different
> > from newly generated ones due to it? I.e. is it something that can be
> > done without a catversion bump?
> 
> Not sure.  I wasn't proposing this as a back-patch, just 9.4 only.

Then a clear +1 for me. It's rather confusing to see bpchar, a type very
rarely used explicitly in explain output.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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