Re: [GENERAL] rewriting values with before trigger - Mailing list pgsql-sql

I **LIKE** your kind of thinking :-)

Don't mess up the data.

Don't mess up the schema.

It hurts or causes LOTS of labor later on.

Robert Treat wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-04-24 at 15:35, Dennis Gearon wrote:
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>>Well,
>>    does ''::INT do anything valuable?
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>     not in 7.3+, and given my original problem involves timestamps, not in
> 7.2 either.
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>>    change column to a string, convert to INTS on the way out, STRINGS on the way in?
>>    use an external language to make transitions.
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> yeah, I've thought of some other crazy ways to get around this, but the
> problem is due to a bug in the application side. I was hoping I could
> write a quick hack (like adding a rule/trigger) to get around this until
> the app was fixed, but I'm not going to make my side a kludge when it
> isn't one now.
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> Robert Treat
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