Ășt 23. 8. 2022 v 21:54 odesĂlatel Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> napsal:
> Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de> writes: > > On 2022-08-23 13:28:50 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > >> I agree with the upthread comments that we only need/want to catch > >> foreseeable incorrect-input errors, and that the way to make that > >> happen is to refactor the related type input functions, and that > >> a lot of the heavy lifting for that has been done already. > > > I think it's a good direction to go in. What of the heavy lifting for > that has > > been done already? I'd have guessed that the hard part is to add > different, > > optional, type input, type coercion signatures, and then converting a > lot of > > types to that? > > I was assuming that we would only bother to do this for a few core types. > Of those, at least the datetime types were already done for previous > JSON-related features. If we want extensibility, then as Robert said > there's going to have to be work done to create a common API that type > input functions can implement, which seems like a pretty heavy lift. > We could get it done for v16 if we start now, I imagine. > +1 Pavel > regards, tom lane > > >