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Subject: Re: [PERFORM] typoed column name, but postgres didn't grump 
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Comments: In-reply-to "Kevin Grittner" <Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov>
	message dated "Fri, 05 Nov 2010 15:15:38 -0500"
Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2010 16:23:00 -0400
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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

"Kevin Grittner" <Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov> writes:
> Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> Here's a proposed patch, sans documentation as yet.
 
> I see you took the surgical approach -- only a cast from a record to
> a character string type is affected.  I agree that will fix the
> complaints I've seen, and I imagine you're keeping the change narrow
> to minimize the risk of breaking existing code, but this still looks
> weird to me:
 
> test=# select ('2010-11-05'::date).text;
>     text
> ------------
>  2010-11-05
> (1 row)

Perhaps, but it's been accepted since 7.3, with few complaints.
I think we should only remove the behavior that was added in 8.4.

			regards, tom lane