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    Extend the unknowns-are-same-as-known-inputs type resolution heuristic. · 1a8b9fb5
    Tom Lane authored
    For a very long time, one of the parser's heuristics for resolving
    ambiguous operator calls has been to assume that unknown-type literals are
    of the same type as the other input (if it's known).  However, this was
    only used in the first step of quickly checking for an exact-types match,
    and thus did not help in resolving matches that require coercion, such as
    matches to polymorphic operators.  As we add more polymorphic operators,
    this becomes more of a problem.  This patch adds another use of the same
    heuristic as a last-ditch check before failing to resolve an ambiguous
    operator or function call.  In particular this will let us define the range
    inclusion operator in a less limited way (to come in a follow-on patch).
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