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From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: Compatibility types, type aliases, and distinct types
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Msg-id 200808182117.20704.peter_e@gmx.net
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In response to Re: Compatibility types, type aliases, and distinct types  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: Compatibility types, type aliases, and distinct types  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Monday 18 August 2008 17:26:16 Tom Lane wrote:
> > This feature by itself could be quite useful, and then we could simply
> > add something like
> >     CREATE TYPE newtype AS oldtype WITH CASTS;
>
> This seems like a great way to get lost in "ambiguous function" hell ...

I don't understand this point.  No new overloaded functions are being defined.

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