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authorTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>2006-08-10 02:36:29 +0000
committerTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>2006-08-10 02:36:29 +0000
commit0ee26100b64702f2fb4cd65c6dfdfb8f31e88130 (patch)
treea10c4a1937f8707bc94950216ee8fdb4f0a61fe8 /src/backend/optimizer/util/tlist.c
parente860e746e15a6c3bc26d7e337162a22e403f5a79 (diff)
Fix UNION/INTERSECT/EXCEPT so that when two inputs being merged have
same data type and same typmod, we show that typmod as the output typmod, rather than generic -1. This responds to several complaints over the past few years about UNIONs unexpectedly dropping length or precision info.
Diffstat (limited to 'src/backend/optimizer/util/tlist.c')
-rw-r--r--src/backend/optimizer/util/tlist.c4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/backend/optimizer/util/tlist.c b/src/backend/optimizer/util/tlist.c
index c75c496065c..74ebb3fc24b 100644
--- a/src/backend/optimizer/util/tlist.c
+++ b/src/backend/optimizer/util/tlist.c
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
*
*
* IDENTIFICATION
- * $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/optimizer/util/tlist.c,v 1.72 2006/03/05 15:58:32 momjian Exp $
+ * $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/optimizer/util/tlist.c,v 1.73 2006/08/10 02:36:29 tgl Exp $
*
*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
*/
@@ -174,6 +174,8 @@ get_sortgrouplist_exprs(List *sortClauses, List *targetList)
*
* Resjunk columns are ignored if junkOK is true; otherwise presence of
* a resjunk column will always cause a 'false' result.
+ *
+ * Note: currently no callers care about comparing typmods.
*/
bool
tlist_same_datatypes(List *tlist, List *colTypes, bool junkOK)