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From: Bruno Wolff III <bruno@wolff.to>
To: Denis Zaitsev <zzz@cd-club.ru>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Are scalar type's in/out functions implicitly STRICT?
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 21:24:44 -0600
Message-ID: <20030228032444.GA4648@wolff.to> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030228054544.A4208@natasha.zzz.zzz>
References: <20030228054544.A4208@natasha.zzz.zzz>

On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 05:45:44 +0500,
  Denis Zaitsev <zzz@cd-club.ru> wrote:
> So, I create some new scalar type and I don't declare its in/out
> functions as STRICT.  But PostgreSQL copes with them such as they
> would be STRICT - they never get the NULL value.  And this is not
> documented, AFAIK.  Have I missed something or is it a some hard
> well-known etc. fact?  Thanks in advance.

Are you using the version one calling sequence?
The version zero method doesn't have a way handle nulls other than by
declaring the function strict.



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