Re: WIP: Range Types

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>, Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: WIP: Range Types
Date: 2011-01-12 19:00:13
Message-ID: 1294858690-sup-5599@alvh.no-ip.org
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Excerpts from Robert Haas's message of mié ene 12 13:48:27 -0300 2011:

> I guess that begs the question of why we need to allow users to call
> type output functions directly.

It used to be the case that that was the only way to run certain casts.
For example, see the pre-8.2 version of this:
http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Pg_depend_display

I haven't needed to use that in a long time, but I am not sure if the
need has completely disappeared.

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Álvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
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