Re: Implicit casts to text

Where are we on this?

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Tom Lane wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> writes:
> > FWIW, is the attached patch about what you had in mind? (It probably only
> > covers "normal" types at the moment.)
>
> Hm, I hadn't realized that it would take as little work as that ...
> I have an itchy feeling that you missed something but I'm not sure
> what.
>
> One thing I had wanted to do is take out the existing functions and
> pg_cast entries that are effectively just providing hard-wired
> equivalents to this, but that's merely housekeeping.
>
> regards, tom lane
>
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