On Fri, Jul 15, 2022 at 11:25:35AM +0200, Matthias van de Meent wrote: > On Thu, 14 Jul 2022, 18:26 Justin Pryzby, <pry...@telsasoft.com> wrote: > > > > Why is $1 construed to be of type text ? > > The select statement that generates the row type of T `(select $1 CID, > $2 TxV) AS T` does not put type bounds on the input parameters, so it > remains `unknown` for the scope of that subselect. Once stored into > the row type, the type of that column defaults to text, as a row type > should not have 'unknown'-typed columns.
Thanks for looking into it. I see now that the same thing can happen with "ON CONFLICT" if used with a subselect. PREPARE p AS INSERT INTO t SELECT a FROM (SELECT $1 AS a)a ON CONFLICT (i) DO UPDATE SET i=excluded.i; ERROR: column "i" is of type integer but expression is of type text It seems a bit odd that it's impossible to use merge with prepared statements without specifically casting the source types (which I did now to continue my experiment). -- Justin