Re: Change in casting behavior?

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Thomas Swan <tswan(at)olemiss(dot)edu>
Cc: Thomas Swan <tswan-lst(at)ics(dot)olemiss(dot)edu>, Postgresql Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Change in casting behavior?
Date: 2002-02-16 05:04:48
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.30.0202160003020.681-100000@peter.localdomain
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Thomas Swan writes:

> As far as I was aware the correct behavior was to truncate the text representation to fit the
> field size or the 'casted' size.

The correct behaviour has been made even more correct in the 7.2 release.
;-)

> I simply thought I would mention as it caught me by surpris.

Should have read the release notes.

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Peter Eisentraut peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net

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