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Re: DOMAINs and CASTs

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

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From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
To: Jaime Casanova <jaime@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: Darren Duncan <darren@darrenduncan.net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2011-05-16T02:01:03Z
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On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 7:43 PM, Jaime Casanova <jaime@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> still, we have a problem... because we are happily ignoring correctely
> created casts...
> at least, we should document that casts on domains are ignored and
> that we should use the base types instead, maybe even a warning or a
> notice when issuing the CREATE CAST command using domains...
>
> make the user think everything is fine when it's not is not a good idea

+1.

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