Re: Proposal for resolving casting issues

From: "Ross J(dot) Reedstrom" <reedstrm(at)rice(dot)edu>
To: Zeugswetter Andreas SB SD <ZeugswetterA(at)spardat(dot)at>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Proposal for resolving casting issues
Date: 2002-09-19 15:42:23
Message-ID: 20020919154223.GK17402@rice.edu
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On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 10:30:51AM -0500, Ross J. Reedstrom wrote:
>
> Ah, sorry to drag this on, then. But this is one of those clear cases
> were we must fo the right thing, not follow the crowd. PostgreSQL gets
do
> used by a lot of scientific projects (Have you noticed all the big
> bioinformatics databases being mentioned on the lists?). Partly because
> we're always underfunded, partly because we're academics who like to
^^(scientific projects) ^^
> have the code. If we start getting basic maths wrong, that'll be a huge
^^(PostgreSQL)
> balck eye for the project.
black

Clearly, it's time for an early lunch for me. I need sugar for my brain.

Ross

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