Re: Explicit or implicit?

From: Laurenz Albe <laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, tristan(dot)chambers(at)gmail(dot)com
Cc: pgsql-docs(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Explicit or implicit?
Date: 2021-11-22 03:37:55
Message-ID: a53b97bab996b7b12ed31d21184efdd91abe9f64.camel@cybertec.at
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On Sun, 2021-11-21 at 12:50 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> PG Doc comments form <noreply(at)postgresql(dot)org> writes:
> > "The @@ operator also supports text input, allowing explicit conversion of a
> > text string to tsvector or tsquery to be skipped in simple cases."I believe
> > that the text is saying implicit, but uses the word "explicit" instead. Is
> > this a typo? Thanks.
>
> I think it's intended.  The point is that instead of, say,
>
>         tsvector_column @@ 'query here'::tsquery
>
> you could just write
>
>         tsvector_column @@ 'query here'

Right. You can skip the explicit conversion of adding a type cast.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe

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