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From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Postgres 7.3.5 and count('x')
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Msg-id 13470.1070724029@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Postgres 7.3.5 and count('x')  (Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>)
Responses Re: Postgres 7.3.5 and count('x')  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
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Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> What is COUNT('x') supposed to return?  1?  Is that legal SQL?

Why not?  Vanilla SQL would assume the string is CHAR type.
        regards, tom lane

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