From: | Kirk Parker <khp(at)equatoria(dot)us> |
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To: | pgsql-docs(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Implicit type conversion -- where documented? |
Date: | 2022-11-11 02:27:21 |
Message-ID: | CANwZ8r=Z-fUmZkSQAV1O0gsOBedt9qDEOw3tbYdYbx3Vt9ezDQ@mail.gmail.com |
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I came across what seems like anomalous behavior regarding
implicit conversion from a numeric type to text. You can write:
select 3.1416 || '?';
and the number implicitly converts to text and concatenates just fine, but
writing:
select trim(3.1416);
fails with an error message. This seems odd to me--in both cases a float
literal is used in a context expecting text; in one case it implicitly
converts, in the other it doesn't.
*This brings up my real question*: are the details of this documented
anywhere? Chapter 10 refers to ' implicit conversions' but I can't see
anywhere that the docs explain the details of how it is done, that would
explain the observed difference in behavior described above.
Thanks!
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