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From: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
To: Rumpi Gravenstein <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: PostgreSQL Bug with simple function unexpectedly treating varchar parameter as an array
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2025 12:54:30 -0400
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Rumpi Gravenstein <[email protected]> writes:
> I've been confound by the following behavior that I see in one of our
> PostgreSQL 16 instances.  In this case I am running this script from psql.

I'd bet there is another function named _sa_setup_role() that takes
some kind of array, and the parser is resolving the ambiguity by
choosing that one.

"\df _sa_setup_role" would be illuminating.

			regards, tom lane

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