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Diffstat (limited to 'doc/src/sgml/ref/create_cast.sgml')
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1 files changed, 9 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/create_cast.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/create_cast.sgml index 172b988a6af..98ed9c3a882 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/create_cast.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/create_cast.sgml @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -<!-- $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/ref/create_cast.sgml,v 1.6 2002/10/04 22:08:44 tgl Exp $ --> +<!-- $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/ref/create_cast.sgml,v 1.7 2002/11/15 03:11:17 momjian Exp $ --> <refentry id="SQL-CREATECAST"> <refmeta> @@ -196,14 +196,14 @@ SELECT 'The time is ' || CAST(now() AS text); </para> <para> - Prior to PostgreSQL 7.3, every function that had the same name as a - data type, returned that data type, and took one argument of a - different type was automatically a cast function. This convention has - been abandoned in face of the introduction of schemas and to be - able to represent binary compatible casts in the catalogs. (The built-in - cast functions - still follow this naming scheme, but they have to be shown as - casts in <literal>pg_cast</> now.) + Prior to <productname>PostgreSQL</> 7.3, every function that had + the same name as a data type, returned that data type, and took one + argument of a different type was automatically a cast function. + This convention has been abandoned in face of the introduction of + schemas and to be able to represent binary compatible casts in the + catalogs. (The built-in cast functions still follow this naming + scheme, but they have to be shown as casts in <literal>pg_cast</> + now.) </para> </refsect1> |