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-rw-r--r--src/backend/parser/parse_coerce.c15
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/backend/parser/parse_coerce.c b/src/backend/parser/parse_coerce.c
index 70b2d13aa5b..26b6934b3d5 100644
--- a/src/backend/parser/parse_coerce.c
+++ b/src/backend/parser/parse_coerce.c
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
*
*
* IDENTIFICATION
- * $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/backend/parser/parse_coerce.c,v 2.40 2000/03/23 07:36:03 tgl Exp $
+ * $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/backend/parser/parse_coerce.c,v 2.41 2000/04/08 19:29:40 tgl Exp $
*
*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
*/
@@ -331,6 +331,19 @@ TypeCategory(Oid inType)
result = STRING_TYPE;
break;
+ /*
+ * Kluge added 4/8/00 by tgl: treat the new BIT types as strings,
+ * so that 'unknown' || 'unknown' continues to resolve as textcat
+ * rather than generating an ambiguous-operator error. Probably
+ * BIT types should have their own type category, or maybe they
+ * should be numeric? Need a better way of handling unknown types
+ * first.
+ */
+ case (ZPBITOID):
+ case (VARBITOID):
+ result = STRING_TYPE;
+ break;
+
case (OIDOID):
case (REGPROCOID):
case (INT2OID):