Re: Change in behavior of string concat operator - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Stephan Szabo
Subject Re: Change in behavior of string concat operator
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Msg-id 20081208085523.Y47606@megazone.bigpanda.com
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In response to Re: Change in behavior of string concat operator  ("Benjamin Krajmalnik" <kraj@illumen.com>)
Responses Re: Change in behavior of string concat operator  ("Benjamin Krajmalnik" <kraj@illumen.com>)
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On Mon, 8 Dec 2008, Benjamin Krajmalnik wrote:

> Thanks.
>
> Then we have an inconsistency between this and the documentation for the
> || operator, where it is showing the abilty to concat numeric types
> without explicit casting.
>
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/functions-string.html

What that page appears to say in the note and table is that you can
concatenate a string and a non-string like varchar and integer, not
multiple non-strings like numeric and integer. What specifically were you
looking at on the page?

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