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To: "Henshall, Stuart - WCP" <SHenshall@westcountrypublications.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: RFD: schemas and different kinds of Postgres objects 
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Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 09:59:39 -0500
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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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"Henshall, Stuart - WCP" <SHenshall@westcountrypublications.co.uk> writes:
> Could you just have a general rule of search in order of age (by OID)?

No, unless you plan to abandon the whole notion of resolving ambiguous
operator/function calls.  (Which'd cut down our TODO list a good bit ;-)
but I don't think users would be happy...)  OID/age ordering generally
has little to do with reasonable resolution behavior.

			regards, tom lane