On Sat, 2003-10-25 at 13:49, Reece Hart wrote:
> Having to explicitly cast criterion is very non-intuitive. Moreover,
> it seems quite straightforward that PostgreSQL might incorporate casts
This is a well-known issue with the query optimizer -- search the
mailing list archives for lots more information. The executive summary
is that this is NOT a trivial issue to fix, and it hasn't been fixed in
7.4, but there is some speculation on how to fix it at some point in the
future.
-Neil
