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

From Barry Lind
Subject Re: Implicit coercions need to be reined in
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Msg-id 3CB521A7.1020503@xythos.com
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In response to Implicit coercions need to be reined in  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: Implicit coercions need to be reined in  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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OK.  My mistake.  In looking at the regression failures in your post, I 
thought I saw errors being reported of this type.  My bad.

--Barry

Tom Lane wrote:
> 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
> 




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