Re: [PERFORM] typoed column name, but postgres didn't grump

"Kevin Grittner" <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov> writes:
> Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> Here's a proposed patch, sans documentation as yet.

> I see you took the surgical approach -- only a cast from a record to
> a character string type is affected. I agree that will fix the
> complaints I've seen, and I imagine you're keeping the change narrow
> to minimize the risk of breaking existing code, but this still looks
> weird to me:

> test=# select ('2010-11-05'::date).text;
> text
> ------------
> 2010-11-05
> (1 row)

Perhaps, but it's been accepted since 7.3, with few complaints.
I think we should only remove the behavior that was added in 8.4.

regards, tom lane