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    Make CREATE AGGREGATE complain if the initcond is invalid for the datatype. · e1e60694
    Tom Lane authored
    The initial transition value is stored as a text string and not fed to the
    transition type's input function until runtime (so that values such as
    "now" don't get frozen at creation time).  Previously, CREATE AGGREGATE
    didn't do anything with it but that, which meant that even erroneous values
    would be accepted and not complained of until the aggregate is used.  This
    seems unhelpful, and it's confused at least one user, as in Rhys Stewart's
    recent report.  It seems worth taking a few more cycles to invoke the input
    function and verify that the value is acceptable.  We can't do this if the
    transition type is polymorphic, but in normal aggregates we know the actual
    transition type so we can call the right input function.
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