Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> Whatever happened to this patch?
I think we bounced it on the grounds that it would represent a
fundamental change in plpgsql behavior and break a whole lot of
applications. People have been relying on plpgsql's coerce-via-IO
assignment behavior for ten years. If you prefer coerce via
cast conversion, you can get that by writing an explicit cast.
Now it is true that a lot of the uses for that were subsumed when
we added coerce-via-IO to the native cast capabilities; but I'm
still quite scared of what this would break, and I don't see any
field demand for a change.
regards, tom lane