| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Stephan Szabo <sszabo(at)megazone23(dot)bigpanda(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Ludwig Lim <lud_nowhere_man(at)yahoo(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Mailing List <pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Weird NULL behavior |
| Date: | 2002-11-07 20:00:51 |
| Message-ID: | 28472.1036699251@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Stephan Szabo <sszabo(at)megazone23(dot)bigpanda(dot)com> writes:
> On Thu, 7 Nov 2002, Tom Lane wrote:
>> I am kind of inclined to remove the arithmetic operators on "char"
>> (+,-,*,/) in 7.4 --- they don't seem to have any real-world uses,
>> and as this example illustrates, they are perfectly positioned to
>> capture cases that probably ought to be errors.
> That seems to make sense. I assume that they were there so that someone
> could treat it as a 1 byte integer?
Presumably ... but defining a numeric type named "int1" would be a lot
more sensible than overloading "char" for the purpose.
regards, tom lane
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