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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Chris Travers <chris.travers@gmail.com>
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Chris Travers <chris.travers@gmail.com> writes:
> Also in my tests, I found that inherited relations do not inherit casts.
> Is this intentional?

Um, in what way exactly?  It's true that we don't consider that a cast
from X to Y and a cast from Y to Z should automatically give you a cast
from X to Z, but that's not specific to inherited relations.  Or did
you have something else in mind?

			regards, tom lane