> > OK, this is making me rethink my suggestion in the book of using type()
> > to do typecasts. Seems I should recommend CAST (val AS type), as wordy
> > as it is, or maybe val::type?
>
> CAST(val AS type) is defined in SQL92. istm that the others are
> available at the whim of our current implementation, since when push
> comes to shove we might have to choose between having one of our
> non-standard mechanisms or having some other new features.
OK, I am going to use CAST everywhere, except in one place where I have
nested casts, which is just too hard to read, so I will use :: and
mention the CAST section.
>
> An example is SQL3 enumerated types, which use the double-colon
> notation, but with value and type reversed from our syntax :(
>
> - Thomas
>
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