Re: pg_casts view (was Re: date_trun() with timezones? (was Re: TIME column ...)) - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: pg_casts view (was Re: date_trun() with timezones? (was Re: TIME column ...))
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Msg-id 19198.1225744437@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to pg_casts view (was Re: date_trun() with timezones? (was Re: TIME column ...))  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>)
Responses Re: pg_casts view (was Re: date_trun() with timezones? (was Re: TIME column ...))  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>)
Re: pg_casts view (was Re: date_trun() with timezones? (was Re: TIME column ...))  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
> Tom Lane escribi�:
>> regression=# select casttarget::regtype,castcontext,castfunc::regprocedure from pg_cast where castsource =
'time'::regtype;

> BTW it very much looks like we should have a pg_casts view that displays
> these things in a human-readable manner (like the above except with
> castcontext expanded)

There already is a \dC command in psql, which has nice enough output
format but doesn't provide any way to select a subset of the table.
Maybe we should just agree that its argument is a pattern for the
castsource type's name?

            regards, tom lane

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