On Wed, Apr 1, 2026 at 3:23 AM jian he <[email protected]> wrote:

> One more issue I found:
>
> https://git.postgresql.org/cgit/postgresql.git/commit/?id=74c96699be3f53c058c8794c07952221b9625b4f
> SELECT JSON_VALUE(jsonb '1234', '$' RETURNING char(2)  DEFAULT '011' ON
> ERROR);
> ERROR:  value too long for type character(2)
>
> Similarly, we can
> SELECT CAST(text '1234' as char(2) DEFAULT '111111' ON conversion ERROR);
> ERROR:  value too long for type character(2)
>

Both of these are doomed when we hit the default, so I don't see why we
should make any accommodation for them.



> Composite types respect typmod, for example:
> CREATE TYPE comp AS (a char(3), b int);
> SELECT CAST('(14,42)' AS comp DEFAULT '(1234,2)' ON CONVERSION ERROR); --
> error
>

This one is trickier, but I'd be willing to reject composite inputs in v19
and solve it in v20.


> The regression tests are too large; we can order them by the cast
> source type's pg_type.type category,
> so we won't miss any tests.
>

We can always remove redundant tests later.

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