Re: Casting Integer to Boolean in assignment

From: Geoff Winkless <pgsqladmin(at)geoff(dot)dj>
To: Geoff Winkless <pgsqladmin(at)geoff(dot)dj>
Cc: Adrian Klaver <adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "David G(dot) Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com>, Alexandre GRAIL <postgresql(dot)general(at)augure(dot)net>, "pgsql-generallists(dot)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Casting Integer to Boolean in assignment
Date: 2019-01-24 15:36:13
Message-ID: CAEzk6fepSm-ywhOGx6QCWmaWqoq00MfVcnu5T27_+ScMjRzWRw@mail.gmail.com
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On Thu, 24 Jan 2019 at 15:32, Geoff Winkless <pgsqladmin(at)geoff(dot)dj> wrote:
> DELETE FROM <tablename> WHERE <integer>;
>
> What would you be thinking that that ought to do?

To be fair, I suppose that accidentally missing out a test but
including an integer field

DELETE FROM <tablename> WHERE <integerfieldname>;

could do this. Not something I've ever done, but at least I see how
it's possible.

*shrug* I should reiterate, it's just my opinion, I'm certainly not
arguing for it to be changed, although I would be pretty upset if the
existing ability to change the behaviour were removed.

Geoff

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