Re: the '::' cast doesn't work in the FROM clause

Alexey Klyukin <alexk(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> On Aug 29, 2011, at 5:47 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> There is a dump/reload bug though :-( ... if you were to do
>>
>> create view vv as select val from CAST(random() as integer) as val;
>>
>> you will find that the system prints it out with the :: syntax,
>> which won't work.

> Would it be acceptable/sufficient to output CAST(...) instead of '::' for all casts in pg_dump to fix this problem, assuming that CAST can be used anywhere where '::' is accepted?

I'm not really excited about that; CAST is more verbose and not
particularly more readable (at least IMO). What I was wondering about
was altering the internal representation to remember which format had
been used, and reverse-listing in that same format. That would both fix
this issue, and please users who have a stylistic preference for one or
the other format.

regards, tom lane