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Tom Lane
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This patch adds the pseudo-types anycompatible, anycompatiblearray, anycompatiblenonarray, and anycompatiblerange. They work much like anyelement, anyarray, anynonarray, and anyrange respectively, except that the actual input values need not match precisely in type. Instead, if we can find a common supertype (using the same rules as for UNION/CASE type resolution), then the parser automatically promotes the input values to that type. For example, "myfunc(anycompatible, anycompatible)" can match a call with one integer and one bigint argument, with the integer automatically promoted to bigint. With anyelement in the definition, the user would have had to cast the integer explicitly. The new types also provide a second, independent set of type variables for function matching; thus with "myfunc(anyelement, anyelement, anycompatible) returns anycompatible" the first two arguments are constrained to be the same type, but the third can be some other type, and the result has the type of the third argument. The need for more than one set of type variables was foreseen back when we first invented the polymorphic types, but we never did anything about it. Pavel Stehule, revised a bit by me Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAFj8pRDna7VqNi8gR+Tt2Ktmz0cq5G93guc3Sbn_NVPLdXAkqA@mail.gmail.com
PostgreSQL tests ================ This directory contains a variety of test infrastructure as well as some of the tests in PostgreSQL. Not all tests are here -- in particular, there are more in individual contrib/ modules and in src/bin. Not all these tests get run by "make check". Check src/test/Makefile to see which tests get run automatically. authentication/ Tests for authentication examples/ Demonstration programs for libpq that double as regression tests via "make check" isolation/ Tests for concurrent behavior at the SQL level locale/ Sanity checks for locale data, encodings, etc mb/ Tests for multibyte encoding (UTF-8) support modules/ Extensions used only or mainly for test purposes, generally not suitable for installing in production databases perl/ Infrastructure for Perl-based TAP tests recovery/ Test suite for recovery and replication regress/ PostgreSQL's main regression test suite, pg_regress ssl/ Tests to exercise and verify SSL certificate handling subscription/ Tests for logical replication thread/ A thread-safety-testing utility used by configure