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diff --git a/src/backend/optimizer/path/allpaths.c b/src/backend/optimizer/path/allpaths.c
index 1d7e20c1e8b..fc618f72d1c 100644
--- a/src/backend/optimizer/path/allpaths.c
+++ b/src/backend/optimizer/path/allpaths.c
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
*
*
* IDENTIFICATION
- * $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/optimizer/path/allpaths.c,v 1.150 2006/08/02 01:59:45 joe Exp $
+ * $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/optimizer/path/allpaths.c,v 1.151 2006/08/10 02:36:28 tgl Exp $
*
*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
*/
@@ -813,6 +813,10 @@ recurse_pushdown_safe(Node *setOp, Query *topquery,
* Compare tlist's datatypes against the list of set-operation result types.
* For any items that are different, mark the appropriate element of
* differentTypes[] to show that this column will have type conversions.
+ *
+ * We don't have to care about typmods here: the only allowed difference
+ * between set-op input and output typmods is input is a specific typmod
+ * and output is -1, and that does not require a coercion.
*/
static void
compare_tlist_datatypes(List *tlist, List *colTypes,