Re: [HACKERS] current CVS snapshot of pgsql crash ...

Removed from TODO list:

* Fix typein/out functions to not be user-callable

> > > For that matter, why do we allow user expressions to call the type
> > > input/output functions at all? They're not really usable as SQL
> > > functions AFAICS...
> >
> > Yes, they take C pointers, don't they. You can't return one of those in
> > any SQL function or column name.
>
> Doing textout(byteaout(... really makes no sense. But being
> able to do a textin(mytypeout(... does make sense for me.
> Without that, there MUST be type casting support for
> MYTYPE->TEXT in the parser.
>
> Sometimes ppl implement user defined types. I assume this
> kind of type casting is used somewhere in a couple of
> applications.
>
>
> Jan
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