Tom Lane writes:
> I think it might be a good idea to require superuser permissions to
> create a binary-equivalence cast.
OK
> Also, in the present state of the code a WITHOUT FUNCTION cast does
> not work if AS ASSIGNMENT isn't given: parse_coerce.c won't ever find
> it. Is this intentional, or just an oversight?
It's a transition state that might be inadequately documented. In the
near future the code should be restructured to allow for non-implicit
binary compatible casts. But currently there are not candidates for that
anyway.
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Peter Eisentraut peter_e@gmx.net
