AI Rumman <rummandba@gmail.com> writes:
> I got a bit confused after installing this version. So far I used to know
> that from Postgresql 8.3 implicit casting has been removed and the
> following should not work at 8.3 :
> create table testtab ( id varchar, id1 int)
> insert into testtab values (1,1);
No, that will work fine in any version, because you're calling upon an
assignment cast not an implicit cast. What once worked and no longer
does is cases like
SELECT length(1);
where the integer argument used to be implicitly cast to text.
regards, tom lane
