Re: SQL99, CREATE CAST, and initdb

On Thu, 2002-06-27 at 02:10, Tom Lane wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> > Perhaps it wouldn't be such a terrible idea after all to store the casting
> > paths separately, such as in a system table pg_cast (from, to, func,
> > implicit).  This would implement the SQL99 spec fairly exactly.
> 
> Well, maybe.  One question is how that would fit in with schemas.
> Thomas appears to want your schema search path to have some effect on
> which casts you can see --- which I'm not at all sure I agree with,

I hope that schema search path has some effect on other user-defined
stuff like simple functions and operators.

> but if that's the requirement then the above doesn't do it either.

What is and what is not affected by schemas ?

Are the docs on our schema usage already available someplace ?


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Hannu