Re: plpgsql: numeric assignment to an integer variable errors out

From: Nikhil Sontakke <nikhil(dot)sontakke(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: plpgsql: numeric assignment to an integer variable errors out
Date: 2010-03-02 06:48:22
Message-ID: a301bfd91003012248q6dbafb4bh8e4a826b63e5489a@mail.gmail.com
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Hi,

> Now it is true that a lot of the uses for that were subsumed when
> we added coerce-via-IO to the native cast capabilities; but I'm
> still quite scared of what this would break, and I don't see any
> field demand for a change.

Well, we have had one of our EDB connectors facing issues because of
this existing conversion mechanism.

I think this is a small patch which tries to do the "right" thing, no?

Regards,
Nikhils
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