From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: pgsql-committers@lists.postgresql.org
Subject: pgsql: Disallow creating binary-coercible casts involving range types.
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2024 16:00:23 +0000
Message-ID: <E1sgnl1-000nCY-Cj@gemulon.postgresql.org> (raw)
Disallow creating binary-coercible casts involving range types.
For a long time we have forbidden binary-coercible casts to or from
composite and array types, because such a cast cannot work correctly:
the type OID embedded in the value would need to change, but it won't
in a binary coercion. That reasoning applies equally to range types,
but we overlooked installing a similar restriction here when we
invented range types. Do so now.
Given the lack of field complaints, we won't change this in stable
branches, but it seems not too late for v17.
Per discussion of a problem noted by Peter Eisentraut.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/076968e1-0852-40a9-bc0b-117cd3f0e43c@eisentraut.org
Branch
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REL_17_STABLE
Details
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https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/2366ab246a32fa2f10523768926dcf6afe42080f
Modified Files
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src/backend/commands/functioncmds.c | 35 ++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
1 file changed, 24 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
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