On Tue, Jun 4, 2024 at 2:20 AM Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > 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.
OK, will post a patch to do so in a new thread on -hackers. -- Thanks, Amit Langote
