| From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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| To: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>, Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: WIP: Range Types |
| Date: | 2011-01-12 19:00:13 |
| Message-ID: | 1294858690-sup-5599@alvh.no-ip.org |
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Excerpts from Robert Haas's message of mié ene 12 13:48:27 -0300 2011:
> I guess that begs the question of why we need to allow users to call
> type output functions directly.
It used to be the case that that was the only way to run certain casts.
For example, see the pre-8.2 version of this:
http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Pg_depend_display
I haven't needed to use that in a long time, but I am not sure if the
need has completely disappeared.
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