Re: Implicit coercions need to be reined in - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

Barry Lind <barry@xythos.com> writes:
> My feeling is that this change as currently scoped will break a lot of 
> existing apps.  Especially the case where people are using where clauses 
> of the form:   bigintcolumn = '999'  to get a query to use the index on 
> a column of type bigint.

Eh?  That case will not change behavior in the slightest, because
there's no type conversion --- the literal is interpreted as the target
type to start with.
        regards, tom lane