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

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com>, Kevin Grittner <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Jon Nelson <jnelson+pgsql(at)jamponi(dot)net>, pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [PERFORM] typoed column name, but postgres didn't grump
Date: 2010-11-05 19:17:24
Message-ID: 29497.1288984644@sss.pgh.pa.us
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I wrote:
> Ah. No, that would still work after the change. The case that I'm
> proposing to break is using function-ish notation to invoke a cast
> from a composite type to some other type whose name you use as if it
> were a function. Even there, if you've created such a cast following
> the usual convention of naming the cast function after the target type,
> it'll still act the same. It's just the built-in I/O-based casts that
> will stop working this way (for lack of a matching underlying function).

Here's a proposed patch, sans documentation as yet.

regards, tom lane

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disable-composite-casts.patch text/x-patch 2.5 KB

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