From: Dennis Gearon <gearond@cvc.net>
To: Robert Treat <xzilla@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [SQL] rewriting values with before trigger
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 13:35:40 -0700
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I **LIKE** your kind of thinking :-)
Don't mess up the data.
Don't mess up the schema.
It hurts or causes LOTS of labor later on.
Robert Treat wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-04-24 at 15:35, Dennis Gearon wrote:
>
>>Well,
>> does ''::INT do anything valuable?
>
>
> not in 7.3+, and given my original problem involves timestamps, not in
> 7.2 either.
>
>
>> change column to a string, convert to INTS on the way out, STRINGS on the way in?
>> use an external language to make transitions.
>>
>
>
> yeah, I've thought of some other crazy ways to get around this, but the
> problem is due to a bug in the application side. I was hoping I could
> write a quick hack (like adding a rule/trigger) to get around this until
> the app was fixed, but I'm not going to make my side a kludge when it
> isn't one now.
>
>
> Robert Treat
>
>
>
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