Extend pg_cast castimplicit column to a three-way value; this allows us

to be flexible about assignment casts without introducing ambiguity in
operator/function resolution.  Introduce a well-defined promotion hierarchy
for numeric datatypes (int2->int4->int8->numeric->float4->float8).
Change make_const to initially label numeric literals as int4, int8, or
numeric (never float8 anymore).
Explicitly mark Func and RelabelType nodes to indicate whether they came
from a function call, explicit cast, or implicit cast; use this to do
reverse-listing more accurately and without so many heuristics.
Explicit casts to char, varchar, bit, varbit will truncate or pad without
raising an error (the pre-7.2 behavior), while assigning to a column without
any explicit cast will still raise an error for wrong-length data like 7.3.
This more nearly follows the SQL spec than 7.2 behavior (we should be
reporting a 'completion condition' in the explicit-cast cases, but we have
no mechanism for that, so just do silent truncation).
Fix some problems with enforcement of typmod for array elements;
it didn't work at all in 'UPDATE ... SET array[n] = foo', for example.
Provide a generalized array_length_coerce() function to replace the
specialized per-array-type functions that used to be needed (and were
missing for NUMERIC as well as all the datetime types).
Add missing conversions int8<->float4, text<->numeric, oid<->int8.
initdb forced.

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/src/backend/nodes/makefuncs.c b/src/backend/nodes/makefuncs.c
index 8363fccfa6e..b92011445e3 100644
--- a/src/backend/nodes/makefuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/nodes/makefuncs.c
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
  *
  *
  * IDENTIFICATION
- *	  $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/backend/nodes/makefuncs.c,v 1.34 2002/09/04 20:31:19 momjian Exp $
+ *	  $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/backend/nodes/makefuncs.c,v 1.35 2002/09/18 21:35:21 tgl Exp $
  */
 #include "postgres.h"
 
@@ -215,13 +215,14 @@ makeAlias(const char *aliasname, List *colnames)
  *	  creates a RelabelType node
  */
 RelabelType *
-makeRelabelType(Node *arg, Oid rtype, int32 rtypmod)
+makeRelabelType(Node *arg, Oid rtype, int32 rtypmod, CoercionForm rformat)
 {
 	RelabelType *r = makeNode(RelabelType);
 
 	r->arg = arg;
 	r->resulttype = rtype;
 	r->resulttypmod = rtypmod;
+	r->relabelformat = rformat;
 
 	return r;
 }