Re: minor patch submission: CREATE CAST ... AS EXPLICIT

On lör, 2011-05-21 at 15:46 +0200, Fabien COELHO wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Please find attached a minor stylish patch. It compiles and the update
> test cases work for me.
>
> Description:
>
> Add "AS EXPLICIT" to "CREATE CAST"
>
> This gives a name to the default case of "CREATE CAST", which creates a
> cast which must be explicitely invoked.
>
> >From a language definition perspective, it is helpful to have a name for
> every case instead of an implicit fallback, without any word to describe
> it. See for instance "CREATE USER CREATEDB/NOCREATEDB" or "CREATE RULE ...
> DO ALSO/INSTEAD" for similar occurences of naming default cases.

Oddly enough, we did add the DO ALSO syntax much later, and no one
complained about that, as far as I recall.