Re: DOMAINs and CASTs

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Jaime Casanova <jaime(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Darren Duncan <darren(at)darrenduncan(dot)net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: DOMAINs and CASTs
Date: 2011-05-16 02:01:03
Message-ID: BANLkTimxwaikHOYOS4o20Y_TbuS1t9Rh0w@mail.gmail.com
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On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 7:43 PM, Jaime Casanova <jaime(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> still, we have a problem... because we are happily ignoring correctely
> created casts...
> at least, we should document that casts on domains are ignored and
> that we should use the base types instead, maybe even a warning or a
> notice when issuing the CREATE CAST command using domains...
>
> make the user think everything is fine when it's not is not a good idea

+1.

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Robert Haas
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