| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | "Gurjeet Singh" <singh(dot)gurjeet(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | "Pavel Stehule" <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>, "PGSQL General" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>, "PGSQL Hackers" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] ERROR: failed to find conversion function from "unknown" to text |
| Date: | 2009-01-06 13:48:06 |
| Message-ID: | 8183.1231249686@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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"Gurjeet Singh" <singh(dot)gurjeet(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>> This is a horrendously bad idea; it will bite your *ss sooner or later,
>> probably sooner.
> Can you please let us know how this would be problematic?
The point is that it's going to have unknown, untested effects on the
default coercion rules, possibly leading to silent changes in the
behavior of queries that used to work. If you'd rather retest every one
of your other queries than fix this one, then go ahead.
regards, tom lane
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