| From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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| To: | Alan Millington <admillington(at)yahoo(dot)co(dot)uk> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>, Alban Hertroys <dalroi(at)solfertje(dot)student(dot)utwente(dot)nl>, Greg Smith <greg(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Postgres general mailing list <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: When is an explicit cast necessary? |
| Date: | 2010-04-15 14:17:35 |
| Message-ID: | 20100415141735.GA7259@alvh.no-ip.org |
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Alan Millington wrote:
> If you think that smallints are more bother than they are worth, perhaps you should remove support for smallints completely. Then people would know where they stood. (Or you could make smallint a synonym for int.)
smallint can be used usefully -- you just need to know how and when.
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Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
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