How do you create casts in Postgres?
On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 3:24 PM, Andrew Sullivan <a...@crankycanuck.ca>wrote: > On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 02:55:03PM -0800, Mike Christensen wrote: > > > I'd be curious as to what types of bugs were caused by these implicit > > casts.. > > Typically, they were cases when there was an ambiguity that the > programmer didn't understand, causing applications to blow up in > surprising and wonderful ways. > > There are things you can do if you're really prepared for the gun > aimed at your feet. Since you can create casts in Postgres, you can > actually add back many of the implicit casts yourself. > > > Such as implicitly cast iff the intention is not ambiguous > > I think if the developers could write code that read minds, they'd be > working on more profitable enterprises ;-) > > Best, > > A > > -- > Andrew Sullivan > a...@crankycanuck.ca > > > -- > Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) > To make changes to your subscription: > http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general >
