Re: DOMAINs and CASTs - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: DOMAINs and CASTs
Date
Msg-id 20086.1322580978@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: DOMAINs and CASTs  (Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: DOMAINs and CASTs  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
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Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 9:46 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
>> What happened to this patch for casts on domains from June?

> Well, if we apply this, it has the possibility to break existing
> dumps.

There's also the question of whether there's really much point.
The whole question of what to do with casts on domains is hard,
and I didn't think that thread made any progress towards defining
better behavior.  I'd just as soon leave things alone until we
have an idea of what would be better.
        regards, tom lane


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