Oh. The CREATE CAST command. Wow, I was totally unaware of this entire feature!
On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 3:36 PM, Mike Christensen <m...@kitchenpc.com>wrote: > 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 >> > >
