Add quote_literal(anyelement) to preserve (and, in fact, extend) a
authorTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Tue, 27 Nov 2007 18:29:11 +0000 (18:29 +0000)
committerTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Tue, 27 Nov 2007 18:29:11 +0000 (18:29 +0000)
commit48d762097b54b0f7f704ad757970bbc7541c4565
treeb9620014805a88c2fda8b69094c01fdc3e2f75a0
parentbf3249d817c6875c86411d7794e9dcbc77a27770
Add quote_literal(anyelement) to preserve (and, in fact, extend) a
useful consequence of the former liberal implicit casting to text;
namely that you can feed non-string values to quote_literal() and get
unsurprising results.  Per discussion.
doc/src/sgml/func.sgml
src/include/catalog/catversion.h
src/include/catalog/pg_proc.h