cast of integer to bool doesn't work (anymore?)

From: Eric Veldhuyzen <ericv(at)xs4all(dot)net>
To: pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: cast of integer to bool doesn't work (anymore?)
Date: 2003-03-21 13:36:46
Message-ID: 20030321133646.GC6540@opium.xs4all.nl
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Hi,

Here at my work we use on the production servers PostgreSQL version
7.2.3, but I have version 7.3.2 (from the Debian distribution) on my
workstation. Now I noticed yesterday that the query 'select 0::boolean;'
works on the production server, it gives the output:

# select 0::boolean;
bool
------
f
(1 row)

Perfect. But when I try this on my local version of postgreSQL I get
this:

# select 0::boolean;
ERROR: Cannot cast type integer to boolean

Is there someone who can axplaint to me why this is happening, did I
forget to do something to make this work, or is this some kind of new
'feature' of the 7.3 version?

--
Eric Veldhuyzen
xs4all NSA team

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