Re: Are scalar type's in/out functions implicitly STRICT?

From: Denis Zaitsev <zzz(at)cd-club(dot)ru>
To: pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Are scalar type's in/out functions implicitly STRICT?
Date: 2003-03-02 00:41:47
Message-ID: 20030302054147.B30850@natasha.zzz.zzz
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On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 09:24:44PM -0600, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 05:45:44 +0500,
> Denis Zaitsev <zzz(at)cd-club(dot)ru> wrote:
> > So, I create some new scalar type and I don't declare its in/out
> > functions as STRICT. But PostgreSQL copes with them such as they
> > would be STRICT - they never get the NULL value. And this is not
> > documented, AFAIK. Have I missed something or is it a some hard
> > well-known etc. fact? Thanks in advance.
>
> Are you using the version one calling sequence?

Yes, I am - v1.

> The version zero method doesn't have a way handle nulls other than by
> declaring the function strict.
>

Hmm, examples/docs show such a way for v0...

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