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
+ schemas and to be able to represent binary-coercible casts in the
system catalogs. The built-in cast functions still follow this naming
scheme, but they have to be shown as casts in the system catalog
<structname>pg_cast</> as well.
exactly match any existing function, but <replaceable>name</> is the name
of a data type and <structname>pg_cast</> provides a binary-coercible cast
to this type from the type of <replaceable>x</>, then the call will be
- construed as a binary-compatible cast. This exception is made so that
+ construed as a binary-coercible cast. This exception is made so that
binary-coercible casts can be invoked using functional syntax, even
though they lack any function. Likewise, if there is no
<structname>pg_cast</> entry but the cast would be to or from a string