Re: minor patch submission: CREATE CAST ... AS EXPLICIT
Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
To: Fabien COELHO <coelho@cri.ensmp.fr>
Cc: PostgreSQL Developers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2011-05-24T20:42:55Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On lör, 2011-05-21 at 15:46 +0200, Fabien COELHO wrote: > Hello, > > Please find attached a minor stylish patch. It compiles and the update > test cases work for me. > > Description: > > Add "AS EXPLICIT" to "CREATE CAST" > > This gives a name to the default case of "CREATE CAST", which creates a > cast which must be explicitely invoked. > > >From a language definition perspective, it is helpful to have a name for > every case instead of an implicit fallback, without any word to describe > it. See for instance "CREATE USER CREATEDB/NOCREATEDB" or "CREATE RULE ... > DO ALSO/INSTEAD" for similar occurences of naming default cases. Oddly enough, we did add the DO ALSO syntax much later, and no one complained about that, as far as I recall.