Peter Eisentraut <pe...@eisentraut.org> writes:
> On 02.06.24 21:46, Tom Lane wrote:
>> If you don't
>> like our current behavior, then either you have to say that RETURNING
>> with a length-limited target type is illegal (which is problematic
>> for the spec, since they have no such type) or that the cast behaves
>> like an implicit cast, with errors for overlength input (which I find
>> to be an unintuitive definition for a construct that names the target
>> type explicitly).
> It asks for the latter behavior, essentially (but it's not defined in
> terms of casts). It says:
Meh. Who needs consistency? But I guess the answer is to do what was
suggested earlier and change the code to use COERCE_IMPLICIT_CAST.
regards, tom lane
