| From: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com>, Postgres-Bugs <pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Failure to coerce unknown type to specific type |
| Date: | 2015-04-29 21:50:15 |
| Message-ID: | CA+Tgmoav4gswNkA39SYdb3SdSBfrcHmU08=nXLNbxMZFg7UYsw@mail.gmail.com |
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On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 9:31 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com> writes:
>> Original report and patch by Karl Schnaitter.
>> create table a(u) as select '1';
>
> We should, in fact, fail that to begin with. Unknown-type columns are
> a spectactularly horrid idea.
I agree. So why don't we throw an error when someone tries to create one?
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Robert Haas
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