Re: auto-casting a bit more intelligent in 8.0 ... ? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: auto-casting a bit more intelligent in 8.0 ... ?
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Msg-id 27438.1093317688@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to auto-casting a bit more intelligent in 8.0 ... ?  ("Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@postgresql.org>)
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"Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@postgresql.org> writes:
> so, its trying bigint = int, and not picking up the index ...

> the database server is 7.4.3 ... is this something that has been made a 
> bit more intelligent in 8.0?  other then casting 0 to bigint, is there 
> something else I should be looking at doing?  Having them go through all 
> of their code and casting all ints to bigint for this sounds a bit extreme 
> :(

Yes, no, and no kidding ;-).  We've been getting beat on for *years*
about this behavior, but it took the proverbial Good Idea to find a
workable solution.  Can't generate those on a schedule I'm afraid...
        regards, tom lane


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