Re: System vs non-system casts

From: Andrew - Supernews <andrew+nonews(at)supernews(dot)com>
To: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: System vs non-system casts
Date: 2005-04-12 17:04:03
Message-ID: slrnd5nvs3.2ilg.andrew+nonews@trinity.supernews.net
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On 2005-04-12, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)dcc(dot)uchile(dot)cl> wrote:
>> Well perhaps there is an even better solution?
>
> What about the simple one of having a bool "pg_cast.castissystem"
> column, or something similar?

Checking the OID might be sufficient if it were possible to make the OID
counter restart at some value known to be greater than any datlastsysoid,
rather than restarting at BootstrapOid.

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