CREATE CAST WITHOUT FUNCTION is capable of creating binary equivalences
that will crash the backend when used (eg, between pass-by-value and
pass-by-reference datatypes). The existing restriction that you must
own one of the datatypes hardly seems like an adequate permissions
check ... especially
Tom Lane writes:
> I think it might be a good idea to require superuser permissions to
> create a binary-equivalence cast.
OK
> Also, in the present state of the code a WITHOUT FUNCTION cast does
> not work if AS ASSIGNMENT isn't given: parse_coerce.c won't ever find
> it. Is this intentional,
Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Tom Lane writes:
>> Also, in the present state of the code a WITHOUT FUNCTION cast does
>> not work if AS ASSIGNMENT isn't given: parse_coerce.c won't ever find
>> it. Is this intentional, or just an oversight?
> It's a transition state that might b
Tom Lane writes:
> Okay. Are you intending to work on it? I was thinking of doing some
> cleanup work in parse_coerce, but will refrain from joggling your elbow
> if you're going to deal with it.
Feel free.
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Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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