On 15.07.2005 08:51, Ezequiel Tolnay wrote:
The main problem I see is that the funcitions in PostgreSQL seem to be
always bound to a particular result datatype. Is there a way to
circumvent this?
I tried to find a solution for this as well some time ago. I don't
believe there is a practical way. It's only a guess, maybe this "strong
typing" helps the planer / optimizer in some way..
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TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to
choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not
match
