Re: DOMAINs and CASTs

From: Jaime Casanova <jaime(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(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 02:13:07
Message-ID: BANLkTik69On0R0gFE0koRZ0mY_E8qMU2QA@mail.gmail.com
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On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 9:01 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> 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.
>

ok, i will make a patch for this... btw, why is that we allow to
create those casts at all? or we can deny them?

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Jaime Casanova         www.2ndQuadrant.com
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