Re: Inconsistent or incomplete behavior obverse in where - Mailing list pgsql-sql

From Josh Berkus
Subject Re: Inconsistent or incomplete behavior obverse in where
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Msg-id 200211121113.09365.josh@agliodbs.com
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In response to Re: Inconsistent or incomplete behavior obverse in where  (Paul Ogden <pogden@claresco.com>)
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Paul,

> Thanks for the reply.  Much of what you say is as we expected.
> I see that 7.3 has addressed the "Unable to identify an operator
> '=' for types 'numeric' and 'double precision'" problem, but
> I'm not sure how.  Context-sensitive approach? Overloaded operator
> approach? Something else ( is there )?

A modification of the operators available.

> If the release of 7.3 is soon, perhaps we can get by with the
> band-aid approach of overloading the comparison operators
> until such time as the new version is available.  Production
> for us is next spring, so maybe we'll be okay on this one.
> This approach would certainly allow our development team to
> right their code one way.

7.3 final is expected before December.

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-Josh Berkus



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