Re: Implicit coercions need to be reined in

From: Barry Lind <barry(at)xythos(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Implicit coercions need to be reined in
Date: 2002-04-11 05:39:51
Message-ID: 3CB521A7.1020503@xythos.com
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OK. My mistake. In looking at the regression failures in your post, I
thought I saw errors being reported of this type. My bad.

--Barry

Tom Lane wrote:
> 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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