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

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: pg_casts view (was Re: date_trun() with timezones? (was Re: TIME column ...))
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Msg-id 49118F09.7080808@gmx.net
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In response to Re: pg_casts view (was Re: date_trun() with timezones? (was Re: TIME column ...))  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: pg_casts view (was Re: date_trun() with timezones? (was Re: TIME column ...))  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane wrote:
> 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?

I'd say it could be a pattern for both source and target.  Often times I
am interested in casts in either direction.

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