Re: CREATE CAST requires immutable cast function? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: CREATE CAST requires immutable cast function?
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In response to CREATE CAST requires immutable cast function?  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane writes:

> Perhaps there's a case for prohibiting volatile casts (as opposed to
> stable ones), but I don't really see it.  I'd prefer to just remove
> this restriction.  Comments?

I'm not wedded to it, I just modelled it after the SQL standard, but
evidently the volatility levels are different in detail.  I would disallow
volatile casts in any case.  There ought to be a minimal behavioral
contract between creators and users of types.

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Peter Eisentraut   peter_e@gmx.net



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