X-Original-To: pgsql-sql-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.144]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8AD7E528E0 for ; Fri, 3 Jun 2005 12:36:40 -0300 (ADT) Received: from svr1.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 96519-01 for ; Fri, 3 Jun 2005 15:36:37 +0000 (GMT) Received: from web11.manitu.net (web11.manitu.net [217.11.48.111]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 945DD528C7 for ; Fri, 3 Jun 2005 12:36:35 -0300 (ADT) Received: from dicaprio.akademie1.de (dicaprio.akademie1.de [62.165.4.166]) (authenticated) by web11.manitu.net (8.10.2-SOL3/8.10.2) with ESMTP id j53FaST13824; Fri, 3 Jun 2005 17:36:29 +0200 Subject: Re: 'true'::TEXT::BOOLEAN From: Markus Bertheau =?UTF-8?Q?=E2=98=AD?= To: Tom Lane Cc: Bruno Wolff III , Michael Glaesemann , PostgreSQL In-Reply-To: <5276.1117812482@sss.pgh.pa.us> References: <1117799555.9816.24.camel@dicaprio.akademie1.de> <3DCEDE55-9D4A-4F4E-8907-ADCC058A3398@myrealbox.com> <1117801417.9816.28.camel@dicaprio.akademie1.de> <20050603151125.GA10971@wolff.to> <5276.1117812482@sss.pgh.pa.us> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2005 17:36:24 +0200 Message-Id: <1117812984.9816.44.camel@dicaprio.akademie1.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.4 (2.0.4-4) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at hub.org X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.021 tagged_above=0 required=5 tests=AWL X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200506/54 X-Sequence-Number: 21655 В Птн, 03/06/2005 в 11:28 -0400, Tom Lane пишет: > There's been discussion of allowing all datatypes to be explicitly > casted to or from text by generating conversions like these > automatically. But I'm not sure if everyone's convinced it's a good > idea or not. I certainly consider the way you proposed in the other mail a workaround. What are the counter arguments? Markus -- Markus Bertheau ☭