text cast to bool bug - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

From Laczi József
Subject text cast to bool bug
Date
Msg-id 4BA1FB98.8090609@ritek.hu
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Responses Re: text cast to bool bug  (Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>)
Re: text cast to bool bug  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
List pgsql-bugs
I think this is a funny bug:

select ('TRUE'::TEXT)::BOOL;bool
------f

but:

select ('TRUE'::varchar(4))::BOOL;bool
------tor

select ('true'::TEXT)::BOOL;bool
------t


My postgresql version:
PostgreSQL 8.3.4


Laczi József




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