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Re: DOMAINs and CASTs

Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>

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From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, 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: 2011-11-29T15:37:38Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
Tom Lane wrote:
> 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.

OK, fine.  That conclusion was not made in the original thread.

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