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From: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
To: Gurjeet Singh <[email protected]>
Cc: Pavel Stehule <[email protected]>
Cc: PGSQL General <[email protected]>
Cc: PGSQL Hackers <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] ERROR: failed to find conversion function from "unknown" to text
Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2009 08:48:06 -0500
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"Gurjeet Singh" <[email protected]> writes:
>> This is a horrendously bad idea; it will bite your *ss sooner or later,
>> probably sooner.

> Can you please let us know how this would be problematic?

The point is that it's going to have unknown, untested effects on the
default coercion rules, possibly leading to silent changes in the
behavior of queries that used to work.  If you'd rather retest every one
of your other queries than fix this one, then go ahead.

			regards, tom lane

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