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Re: DOMAINs and CASTs

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>, David Fetter <david@fetter.org>, Jaime Casanova <jaime@2ndquadrant.com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, Darren Duncan <darren@darrenduncan.net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2011-11-29T15:36:18Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 9:46 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
>> What happened to this patch for casts on domains from June?

> Well, if we apply this, it has the possibility to break existing
> dumps.

There's also the question of whether there's really much point.
The whole question of what to do with casts on domains is hard,
and I didn't think that thread made any progress towards defining
better behavior.  I'd just as soon leave things alone until we
have an idea of what would be better.

			regards, tom lane