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

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.
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