Re: Bug/Change in behavior for 7.3 vs 7.2.1

It is already there, I think:

fix implicit type coercions that are worse

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Barry Lind wrote:
> Then shouldn't this appear on the "Open 7.3 issues" list that has been
> circulating around? This seems like an open issue to me, that needs to
> be addressed before 7.3 ships.
>
> --Barry
>
> Tom Lane wrote:
>
> >Barry Lind <barry(at)xythos(dot)com> writes:
> >
> >
> >>You can no long insert large values into a bigint column without a
> >>cast.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >This seems to be fallout from the move to tighten up implicit coercions
> >(cf http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2002-04/msg00528.php
> >as well as lots of earlier discussions).
> >
> >I said right along that this topic needed more debate, but we haven't
> >gotten back to looking at it. We have a number of other nasty behaviors
> >in current sources that trace back to altering the set of available
> >coercions.
> >
> > regards, tom lane
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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