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Remove undocumented IS [NOT] OF syntax.
This feature was added a long time ago, in7c1e67bd5andeb121ba2c, but never documented in any user-facing way. (Documentation added in6126d3e70was commented out almost immediately, in 8272fc3f7.) That's because, while this syntax is defined by SQL:99, our implementation is only vaguely related to the standard's semantics. The standard appears to intend a run-time not parse-time test, and it definitely intends that the test should understand subtype relationships. No one has stepped up to fix that in the intervening years, but people keep coming across the code and asking why it's not documented. Let's just get rid of it: if anyone ever wants to make it work per spec, they can easily recover whatever parts of this code are still of value from our git history. If there's anyone out there who's actually using this despite its undocumented status, they can switch to using pg_typeof() instead, eg. "pg_typeof(something) = 'mytype'::regtype". That gives essentially the same semantics as what our IS OF code did. (We didn't have that function last time this was discussed, or we would have ripped out IS OF then.) Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAKFQuwZ2pTc-DSkOiTfjauqLYkNREeNZvWmeg12Q-_69D+sYZA@mail.gmail.com Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/BAY20-F23E9F2B4DAB3E4E88D3623F99B0@phx.gbl Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3E7CF81D.1000203@joeconway.com
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@@ -373,7 +373,7 @@ S096 Optional array bounds YES
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S097 Array element assignment NO
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S098 ARRAY_AGG YES
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S111 ONLY in query expressions YES
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S151 Type predicate NO
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S151 Type predicate NO see pg_typeof()
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S161 Subtype treatment NO
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S162 Subtype treatment for references NO
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S201 SQL-invoked routines on arrays YES
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