Regression in 8.3?

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Hi,

just compiled a fresh 8.3 on my Ubuntu Gutsy, but there's one thing
which seems to have changed though I cannot get any hint about that in
the docs:

Given a table bla(a bigint,b text)

select * from bla where a like '8%'

works in <=8.2, but not on 8.3

Same happens with date columns, too.

I know I can workaround by casting to text, but I thought the server
would be intelligent enough to use a simple string conversion in that
case on its own (like it did all the years before already...)

tia,

Patric
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