Re: Implicit coercions need to be reined in

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Barry Lind <barry(at)xythos(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: Implicit coercions need to be reined in
Date: 2002-04-11 05:20:33
Message-ID: 28380.1018502433@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Barry Lind <barry(at)xythos(dot)com> writes:
> My feeling is that this change as currently scoped will break a lot of
> existing apps. Especially the case where people are using where clauses
> of the form: bigintcolumn = '999' to get a query to use the index on
> a column of type bigint.

Eh? That case will not change behavior in the slightest, because
there's no type conversion --- the literal is interpreted as the target
type to start with.

regards, tom lane

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