Re: Boolean casting in 7.3 -> changed? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Dave Page
Subject Re: Boolean casting in 7.3 -> changed?
Date
Msg-id 03AF4E498C591348A42FC93DEA9661B8128CC3@mail.vale-housing.co.uk
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In response to Boolean casting in 7.3 -> changed?  (Ian Barwick <barwick@gmx.net>)
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Wheeler [mailto:david@wheeler.net]
> Sent: 30 November 2002 20:18
> To: David Walker
> Cc: PostgreSQL Development
> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Boolean casting in 7.3 -> changed?
>
>
> On Wednesday, November 27, 2002, at 04:34  PM, David Walker wrote:
>
> > Does this mean that in the future '342' may not be valid as
> an insert
> > into a
> > numeric field and that we should be using 342 instead?
>
> I didn't see an answer to this question, but I sincerely hope
> that the
> answer is
> "no." Otherwise, dynamic interfaces are going to have a much harder
> time.

pgAdmin will have similar problems. I can work round it for standard
types, but how will I tell whether a custom type will reject quoted
values?

Regards, Dave.


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