Re: Question about casts - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Question about casts
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Msg-id 16070.1147974027@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Question about casts  (Thomas Hallgren <thomas@tada.se>)
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Thomas Hallgren <thomas@tada.se> writes:
> I would have thought that casting into the 
> string types was something that could be hardwired since the backing 
> functions are mandatory.

This has been proposed before, and seems reasonable to me (as long as
the casts are explicit-only), and I think it's listed in TODO; but
nobody's gotten around to it.
        regards, tom lane


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