Re: When is an explicit cast necessary? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: When is an explicit cast necessary?
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Msg-id 20100415141735.GA7259@alvh.no-ip.org
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In response to Re: When is an explicit cast necessary?  (Alan Millington <admillington@yahoo.co.uk>)
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Alan Millington wrote:

> If you think that smallints are more bother than they are worth, perhaps you should remove support for smallints
completely.Then people would know where they stood. (Or you could make smallint a synonym for int.) 

smallint can be used usefully -- you just need to know how and when.

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