Re: MySQL Compatibility WAS: 8.5 release timetable, again - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: MySQL Compatibility WAS: 8.5 release timetable, again
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Msg-id 25012.1251332640@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: MySQL Compatibility WAS: 8.5 release timetable, again  (Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>)
Responses Re: MySQL Compatibility WAS: 8.5 release timetable, again  (Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>)
Re: MySQL Compatibility WAS: 8.5 release timetable, again  (Tino Wildenhain <tino@wildenhain.de>)
Re: MySQL Compatibility WAS: 8.5 release timetable, again  (Boszormenyi Zoltan <zb@cybertec.at>)
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Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu> writes:
> Actually it always bothered me that we don't have implicit casts from
> integer->boolean. I can't see any ambiguity or unintentional effects
> this would cause problems with. Am I missing something?

Personally, as an old Pascal-lover, I always thought that C's failure
to distinguish between int and boolean was the single biggest design
mistake in the language.  I'm very glad that SQL doesn't make that
mistake, and I don't want to go against the standard to introduce it.
        regards, tom lane


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