Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The attached patch changes all implicit casts to text to assignment and > cleans up the associated regression test damage. This change has been > discussed for the longest time; I propose that we bite the bullet and > do it now.
[ I'm assuming this isn't an April-fool item, otherwise never mind ] The scheme that was in the back of my mind was to do this at the same time as providing a general facility for casting *every* type to and from text, by means of their I/O functions if no specialized cast is provided in pg_cast. This would improve functionality, thus providing a salve to the annoyance of users whose code the restriction breaks: we can certainly argue that it wouldn't do for all those automatically created casts to be implicit. At the same time it'd let us eliminate redundant text-to/from-foo code that's currently in place for some but not all datatypes. If we do only the restrictive part of this, it's a harder sale. So, +1 on the concept, but I think we want a larger patch, and it's probably too late for that for 8.3. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings