Re: there is a way to deactivate type validation on 8.3.1????

On 05/28/2010 04:58 PM, Adrian Klaver wrote:
> On Friday 28 May 2010 1:34:24 pm erobles wrote:
>
>> On 05/28/2010 03:18 PM, alvherre wrote:
>>
>>> Excerpts from erobles's message of vie may 28 16:08:23 -0400 2010:
>>>
>>>> it did'nt work  :-(  , because the script is  for  pg 8.2 and i have pg
>>>> 7.2 and the table  pg_cast doesn't exist.  whatever is a good idea but i
>>>> need  to know the   table or tables  on postgres 7.2.
>>>>
>>> Of course it didn't work if you tried to run it in 7.2; you're supposed
>>> to run it in the 8.3 server, not the old one.  The point is to make 8.3
>>> sort-of compatible with the old behavior.
>>>
>> did you see the script?
>>
>> didn't  it work because the  first command is a psql  pointing a pg
>> server 8.2
>> the second command is a psql pointing a pg server 8.3
>> then  the command  are executed   and  get the differences
>> after that  made the  properly casting fucntions
>>
>>
>> this result ok , because the postgres 8.x.x have the same database
>> catalog.... in this case have the table pg_cast
>> so the query works  OK.
>>
>>
>>
>> the problem in the postgres 7.2   doesn't exists  the table pg_cast so i
>> can't get the information need it to  get the differences
>>
>> so, i need  modify the first command  run it and get the  info in the
>> same format to get it.
>>
> I believe you are looking at the wrong file; the shell script. Try instead the
> other link http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Image:Pg83-implicit-casts.sql It
> contains the functions you need.
>
>
thanks!