On Tue, 2003-04-15 at 10:25, Zeugswetter Andreas SB SD wrote:
>
> > > That seems like a rather poor excuse for not supporting a standard feature
> > > that people seem to ask about every week.
> >
> > Actually, that was the first complaint that I can recall hearing in
> > quite some time.
>
> Imho it is well documented, and the answer has always been that it is not easily doable,
> so people don't complain, but I guess they are none the less annoyed.
>
> I would vote for doing the change.
>
Tom raised the issue of
> SELECT 'foo'::character varying
> Is "varying" an alias or part of the type name?
which I've not seen addressed except for the suggestion to deprecate the
use of :: for casting, which I would sure have reservations about.
Robert Treat