Re: DOMAINs and CASTs - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From David Fetter
Subject Re: DOMAINs and CASTs
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Msg-id 20110613153402.GA28357@fetter.org
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In response to Re: DOMAINs and CASTs  (Jaime Casanova <jaime@2ndquadrant.com>)
Responses Re: DOMAINs and CASTs
Re: DOMAINs and CASTs
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On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 03:39:39AM -0500, Jaime Casanova wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 6:36 AM, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> wrote:
> > On tis, 2011-05-17 at 14:11 -0500, Jaime Casanova wrote:
> >> On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 12:19 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > The more controversial question is what to do if someone tries to
> >> > create such a cast anyway.  We could just ignore that as we do now, or
> >> > we could throw a NOTICE, WARNING, or ERROR.
> >>
> >> IMHO, not being an error per se but an implementation limitation i
> >> would prefer to send a WARNING
> >
> > Implementation limitations are normally reported as errors.  I don't see
> > why it should be different here.
> >
>
> ok, patch reports an error... do we want to backpatch this? if we want
> to do so maybe we can backpatch as a warning

Minor clarification attached.

Cheers,
David.
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