Re: pg_casts view (was Re: date_trun() with timezones? (was Re: TIME column ...))

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: Bill Moran <wmoran(at)collaborativefusion(dot)com>, Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: pg_casts view (was Re: date_trun() with timezones? (was Re: TIME column ...))
Date: 2008-11-03 20:33:57
Message-ID: 19198.1225744437@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> Tom Lane escribi:
>> regression=# select casttarget::regtype,castcontext,castfunc::regprocedure from pg_cast where castsource = 'time'::regtype;

> BTW it very much looks like we should have a pg_casts view that displays
> these things in a human-readable manner (like the above except with
> castcontext expanded)

There already is a \dC command in psql, which has nice enough output
format but doesn't provide any way to select a subset of the table.
Maybe we should just agree that its argument is a pattern for the
castsource type's name?

regards, tom lane

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