Re: Weird "could not determine which collation to use for string comparison" with LEAST/GREATEST on PG11 procedure

Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]> Thu, 7 Feb 2019 08:29:47 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.db.postgresql.bugs,gmane.comp.db.postgresql.sql
Organization 2ndQuadrant
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On 05/02/2019 15:46, Tom Lane wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]> writes:
>> On 21/11/2018 19:19, Tom Lane wrote:
>>> Yeah, same here.  I think somebody forgot to run assign_expr_collations()
>>> on CALL arguments.
> 
>> This appears to fix it.
> 
> I think this should be fine as a band-aid patch.  As I mentioned
> previously, I'm not really happy with our generally-unprincipled
> approach to where collation assignment is called from ... but a
> bug-fix patch should probably not be tasked with making that
> better.  Especially not with less than a week till 11.2.

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