| From: | Dennis Gearon <gearond(at)cvc(dot)net> |
|---|---|
| To: | Robert Treat <xzilla(at)users(dot)sourceforge(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, "pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>, pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: [SQL] rewriting values with before trigger |
| Date: | 2003-04-24 20:35:40 |
| Message-ID: | 3EA84A9C.1040901@cvc.net |
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I **LIKE** your kind of thinking :-)
Don't mess up the data.
Don't mess up the schema.
It hurts or causes LOTS of labor later on.
Robert Treat wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-04-24 at 15:35, Dennis Gearon wrote:
>
>>Well,
>> does ''::INT do anything valuable?
>
>
> not in 7.3+, and given my original problem involves timestamps, not in
> 7.2 either.
>
>
>> change column to a string, convert to INTS on the way out, STRINGS on the way in?
>> use an external language to make transitions.
>>
>
>
> yeah, I've thought of some other crazy ways to get around this, but the
> problem is due to a bug in the application side. I was hoping I could
> write a quick hack (like adding a rule/trigger) to get around this until
> the app was fixed, but I'm not going to make my side a kludge when it
> isn't one now.
>
>
> Robert Treat
>
>
>
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