From: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
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To: | Thomas Lockhart <lockhart(at)fourpalms(dot)org> |
Cc: | PostgreSQL Hackers List <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: SQL99, CREATE CAST, and initdb |
Date: | 2002-06-20 19:09:14 |
Message-ID: | Pine.LNX.4.44.0206202106450.1267-100000@localhost.localdomain |
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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.
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Peter Eisentraut peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net
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