Re: Type Categories for User-Defined Types

From: "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(at)kineticode(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Type Categories for User-Defined Types
Date: 2008-08-04 17:43:35
Message-ID: 20A114CA-0FC9-47B0-9E7A-2AB80325FFE4@kineticode.com
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On Jul 31, 2008, at 10:42, David E. Wheeler wrote:

>> Good point --- so new members of STRING category aren't going to be
>> that
>> common, except for domains which apparently aren't bothering people
>> anyway. I'll go ahead and make the change. (I think it's just a
>> trivial change in find_coercion_pathway, and everything else should
>> Just Work. If it turns out not to be trivial maybe we should
>> reconsider.)
>
> Wow. Really nice, Tom. Thanks!
>
> The attached patch has all the tests I added to my svn version
> against 8.3, and for which I had to write 60 additional cast
> functions.

Ping! Just wanted to make sure this wasn't lost in the shuffle…

Thanks,

David

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