Re: ALTER CAST

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Jaime Casanova <jcasanov(at)systemguards(dot)com(dot)ec>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: ALTER CAST
Date: 2009-05-26 21:33:33
Message-ID: 19317.1243373613@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Jaime Casanova <jcasanov(at)systemguards(dot)com(dot)ec> writes:
> Hi, any reason not to implement an ALTER CAST statement?

Mainly, because we don't really *want* every thinks-he-knows-something
DBA fooling around with the built-in casts. If he actually knows enough
to know whether it's safe, then he knows enough to do it by poking the
catalogs.

regards, tom lane

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