Re: [HACKERS] Re: [GENERAL] A mistake generates strange result

From: "Thomas G(dot) Lockhart" <lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Postgres DBA <postgres(at)nest(dot)bistbn(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Re: [GENERAL] A mistake generates strange result
Date: 1999-02-10 15:38:15
Message-ID: 36C1A7E7.DE99C525@alumni.caltech.edu
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> So it should be fixed in 6.5. (Thomas, could this be back-patched
> into 6.4.3?)

Not likely, since it defined a couple of new procedures in the system
tables to do explicit string to float8 conversions.

The only v6.4.3-compatible patch we can make is to remove the "binary
equivalence" between datetime and float8, which I had put in to allow
more date arithmetic (a lazy solution, but it seemed a good idea at the
time :/ I have a patch to do that, but have not applied it to either
tree yet.

- Tom

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