On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 02:08:03PM -0500, Andrew Biagioni wrote:
>
> So finally, my question. Why is this behavior present? Is it actually
> a feature that I don't know enough to appreciate?
It's the side-effect of some other features in the system. If you
search on -hackers archives you'll find several attempts to find a
solution to this little problem; all of them have failed so far,
AFAIK. There was talk of making the int4-to-int8 case behave more
reasonably in 7.4, but I don't know whether it's been done.
A
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