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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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Subject: Re: 4.2.9. Type Casts - documentation improvement
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Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> Any idea where this should be documented.   It is useful?

Section 8.16.5 is pretty exhaustive already.  I'm not convinced
that this particular case needs to be mentioned explicitly.

			regards, tom lane


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