Re: [HACKERS] current CVS snapshot of pgsql crash ...

Removed from TODO list:

* Fix typein/out functions to not be user-callable


> > > For that matter, why do we allow user expressions to call the type
> > > input/output functions at all?  They're not really usable as SQL
> > > functions AFAICS...
> >
> > Yes, they take C pointers, don't they.  You can't return one of those in
> > any SQL function or column name.
> 
>     Doing  textout(byteaout(...  really makes no sense. But being
>     able to do a textin(mytypeout(... does  make  sense  for  me.
>     Without   that,  there  MUST  be  type  casting  support  for
>     MYTYPE->TEXT in the parser.
> 
>     Sometimes ppl implement user defined  types.  I  assume  this
>     kind  of  type  casting  is  used  somewhere  in  a couple of
>     applications.
> 
> 
> Jan
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