Re: Installing Postgress 8.0.5 in Ubuntu 10.12 - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Adrian Klaver
Subject Re: Installing Postgress 8.0.5 in Ubuntu 10.12
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Msg-id 5119B2D1.8080809@gmail.com
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In response to Re: Installing Postgress 8.0.5 in Ubuntu 10.12  (Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@gmail.com>)
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On 02/11/2013 06:59 PM, Scott Marlowe wrote:
> Wait I think it was 8.2 wasn't it?

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/interactive/release-8-3.html

E.24.2.1. General

Non-character data types are no longer automatically cast to TEXT
(Peter, Tom)

Previously, if a non-character value was supplied to an operator or
function that requires text input, it was automatically cast to text,
for most (though not all) built-in data types. This no longer happens:
an explicit cast to text is now required for all non-character-string
types. For example, these expressions formerly worked:


>
> On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 7:58 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@gmail.com> writes:
>>> The change from 8.0 to 8.1 that removed implicit casts broke a LOT of
>>> poorly written software.
>>
>> That was 8.3, not 8.1.
>>
>>                          regards, tom lane
>
>
>


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