On Tue, 2007-11-12 at 19:32 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > Marc Munro <marc@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > This works fine: > > "str2" varchar(40) > > This does not: > > "str2" "pg_catalog"."varchar"(40) > > Yeah. That's because in all existing PG releases, type modifiers are > handled by hard-wired grammar productions that *only* work for VARCHAR, > CHARACTER VARYING, and so on, treated as keywords. > > Teodor did some remarkable work for 8.3, fixing things so that any type > name could have modifiers attached, without (we hope ;-)) breaking any > cases that worked before. It had previously been assumed that this was > impossible, because a type-name-plus-modifier looks just about > indistinguishable from a function call, but he managed to find a way > that side-stepped all the grammatical ambiguities. Your examples all > work fine in CVS HEAD. Cool. Thanks, Tom for the response, and Teodor for fixing my problem before I even knew I had it. __ Marc
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