Am Montag, 11. Oktober 2004 15:50 schrieb Tom Lane:
> I agree with Michael's position. I don't like implicit/automatic casts
> any more than Peter does, but I don't see a strong argument against
> providing explicit casts.
I find the chosen mapping to be somewhat arbitrary and artifical. (2::int =>
'2'::text is not arbitrary in my mind, but 1::int => true is just something a
C programmer could make up.) But I'm clearly in the minority here.
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Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/
