Re: Proposal for resolving casting issues

From: "Christopher Kings-Lynne" <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>
To: "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Proposal for resolving casting issues
Date: 2002-09-16 02:10:05
Message-ID: GNELIHDDFBOCMGBFGEFOAEDOCEAA.chriskl@familyhealth.com.au
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> > abstime <-> int4: I think these should not be implicit because they
> > represent different "kinds" of data. (These are binary
> compatible casts,
> > so changing them to not implicit probably won't have any
> effect. I'd have
> > to check this.)
>
> I believe that as of current sources we can mark a binary cast
> non-implicit,
> and I agree with marking these two explicit-only.

Everything in this proposal looks pretty good. With regards to the above
abstime<->int4 thing - what about the 'magic' values in that conversion.
(eg. -infinity, etc.)

Chris

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