Re: Upgrading from 9.6 to 12 and running into cast issues with pg_catalog.text()

Wells Oliver <[email protected]> Tue, 29 Oct 2019 22:27:11 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.comp.db.postgresql.admin
Message-ID <CAOC+FBVEfGRHD_FQ6gPoYwLe4xuvF-LMNjA4CYOLEhiQLev8vQ@mail.gmail.com>
Thanks, Tom! I found some long ago (8.3) code that created 15 implicit
casts (AND the needed functions within pg_catalog that I had been using
through the years, so I was able to drop them and move forward. Ah, memory
lane.


On Tue, Oct 29, 2019 at 10:22 PM Tom Lane <[email protected]> wrote:

> Wells Oliver <[email protected]> writes:
> > I have some implicit casts such as real to text where they depend on the
> > function pg_catalog.text(real) which seems to no longer exist in 12. The
> > pg_upgrade failure says:
>
> > Command was: CREATE CAST (real AS "text") WITH FUNCTION
> > "pg_catalog"."text"(real) AS IMPLICIT;
>
> Hm, there wasn't any such function in 9.6 either, so I suspect you've
> forgotten some critical details about how these casts got created.
> But anyway, if you really want that behavior, creating the cast
> "WITH INOUT" is probably the best way to do it.
>
>                         regards, tom lane
>


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