From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Markus Bertheau ☭ <twanger@bluetwanger.de>
Cc: Achilleus Mantzios <achill@matrix.gatewaynet.com>
Cc: 'PostgreSQL' <pgsql-sql@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: 'true'::TEXT::BOOLEAN
Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2005 09:47:11 -0400
Message-ID: <4300.1117806431@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1117799555.9816.24.camel@dicaprio.akademie1.de>
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Markus Bertheau =?UTF-8?Q?=E2=98=AD?= <twanger@bluetwanger.de> writes:
> Well, that's not my question. I have a plpgsql function like that:
> ...
> And I can't call it with a TEXT variable, because casting from TEXT to
> BOOLEAN isn't possible.
In plpgsql it is: just assign the text value to a boolean variable.
plpgsql's notions of type safety are pretty lax ;-)
regards, tom lane
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