On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 1:39 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: >> The other case that comes up regularly is someone trying to pass some >> kind of number to a function such as LPAD(). There is only one LPAD() >> so no ambiguity exists, but PostgreSQL doesn't even see that there's a >> candidate. > > There still won't be a candidate for that one, unless you're proposing > to allow explicit-only coercions to be applied implicitly.
OK, I'm confused. rhaas=# create table foo (a text); CREATE TABLE rhaas=# insert into foo values (12345); INSERT 0 1 There are no pg_cast entries for integer -> text, but this still gets treated as an assignment cast because of some special-case logic in find_coercion_pathway(). -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
