| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
| Cc: | PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Inconsistent casts |
| Date: | 2002-09-14 02:57:24 |
| Message-ID: | 23045.1031972244@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> writes:
> Since almost every cast to "text" is implicit, then I believe so should
> inet -> text
> macaddr -> text
> int4 -> varchar
> int8 -> varchar
> which are currently not.
I would like to see us *eliminate* implicit casts to text. Not add more.
See my prior rants on subject... but the core of the matter is that if
every datatype can be implicitly casted to text then you have no type
safety worthy of the term. We have open bug reports that reduce to this.
regards, tom lane
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