diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/create_cast.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/create_cast.sgml index 2ef9a79789..ea56f66857 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/create_cast.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/create_cast.sgml @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ - + @@ -294,7 +294,7 @@ SELECT CAST ( 2 AS numeric ) + 4.0; 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 pg_cast as well. @@ -324,7 +324,7 @@ SELECT CAST ( 2 AS numeric ) + 4.0; exactly match any existing function, but name is the name of a data type and pg_cast provides a binary-coercible cast to this type from the type of 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 pg_cast entry but the cast would be to or from a string