Re: [postmodern-devel] Incorrect :cast compilation

Hello Yuri,

(sql-compile '(:cast (:as value :BIGINT)))

Aha -- I hadn't used CAST before, the fact that :as works here is kind of incidental. CAST does exactly the same as the '::' operator, though -- see the :type operator in S-SQL. Just removing 'cast' from the list of reserved words is not a good idea, since then you can't have rows named 'cast' in your tables anymore. I could add an operator like this...

(def-sql-op :cast (value type) `("CAST(" ,@(sql-expand value) " AS " ,(to-type-name type) ")"))

... but maybe it makes more sense not to support both syntaxes and just use :type instead?

Cheers, Marijn