Re: comments on casts - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: comments on casts
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Msg-id 6819.1066113057@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to comments on casts  (Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>)
Responses Re: comments on casts  (Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>)
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Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au> writes:
> Is it true to say that it's impossible for me to allow comments on 
> casts, as there is no OID on the pg_cast table?

Eh?

regression=# select oid from pg_cast; oid
-------1642016421164221642316424... etc ...

It would be a very serious design error if pg_cast didn't have OIDs,
because then pg_cast entries couldn't have dependency entries in
pg_depend.
        regards, tom lane


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