Re: DOMAINs and CASTs

Jaime Casanova <jaime@2ndquadrant.com>

From: Jaime Casanova <jaime@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Darren Duncan <darren@darrenduncan.net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2011-05-16T02:13:07Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 9:01 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>

ok, i will make a patch for this... btw, why is that we allow to
create those casts at all? or we can deny them?

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