Re: minor patch submission: CREATE CAST ... AS EXPLICIT

Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas@vmware.com>

From: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas@vmware.com>
To: Fabien COELHO <coelho@cri.ensmp.fr>
Cc: PostgreSQL Developers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2013-06-16T14:45:01Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Hi,

I saw you added this 2-year old thread to the 2013-06 commitfest, but I 
don't see any new activity. Huh?

On 28.05.2011 00:48, Fabien COELHO wrote:
>
>>> 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.
>
> I complained:-) and I submitted the patch then, AFAICR.
>


- Heikki