Thomas Lockhart writes: > I've got patches for the CREATE CAST/DROP CAST feature (just a > rearrangement of our existing function declaration syntax). The SQL99 > form assumes that an existing function will be used for the cast > definition, so I've extended the syntax to allow that and to have an > alternate form which has more of our CREATE FUNCTION functionality.
Could you provide more precise details? I've thought of this before, when the new "may be a cast function" feature was added, and this feature didn't match very well. > I'm also looking at the SQL99 INFORMATION_SCHEMA views. Is anyone > already defining these? Yes. I'm done through section 20.18 (COLUMNS view). > The initdb folks may want to start thinking about the best way to > support a larger number of views; currently they are embedded directly > into the initdb script but that would get unwieldy with more of them > (and some of them are *really* fat definitions!). I think they can be loaded from an external file. -- Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
