Re: BUG #2917: spi_prepare doesn't accept typename aliases

Jim Nasby wrote:
> On Jan 26, 2007, at 9:31 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> If you wanted to be a bit more ambitious maybe you could change the fact
>> that this code is throwing away typmod, which means that declarations
>> like "varchar(32)" would fail to work as expected.  Perhaps it should be
>> fixed to save the typmods alongside the typioparams and then pass them
>> to InputFunctionCall instead of passing -1.  On the other hand, we don't
>> currently enforce typmod for any function input or result arguments, so
>> maybe it's consistent that spi_prepare arguments ignore typmods too.
>> Thoughts?
>
> I'd like to see us move towards supporting that; both for function 
> parameters/results as well as inside functions. It'd be nice if both 
> cases got fixed at once, but IMHO fixing only one now would be better 
> than fixing none.
>

I'm not going to do either in fixing this bug - I think they should be 
fixed but are a separate issue. These probably belong on the TODO list.

cheers

andrew