Extend the unknowns-are-same-as-known-inputs type resolution heuristic.
For a very long time, one of the parser's heuristics for resolving
ambiguous operator calls has been to assume that unknown-type literals are
of the same type as the other input (if it's known). However, this was
only used in the first step of quickly checking for an exact-types match,
and thus did not help in resolving matches that require coercion, such as
matches to polymorphic operators. As we add more polymorphic operators,
this becomes more of a problem. This patch adds another use of the same
heuristic as a last-ditch check before failing to resolve an ambiguous
operator or function call. In particular this will let us define the range
inclusion operator in a less limited way (to come in a follow-on patch).
Branch
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master
Details
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http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/1a8b9fb5499d8646661a57edd3c88c3107622ff8
Modified Files
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doc/src/sgml/typeconv.sgml | 56 ++++++++++++++++---
src/backend/parser/parse_func.c | 117 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
2 files changed, 147 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-)