2009/1/13 Aleksander Kmetec <aleksander.kmetec@intera.si>:
> Hi, everyone.
>
> I'm trying to upgrade a database which is used by several hundred
> installations of an app; with each installation possibly running some custom
> code and 3rd party extensions. I was hoping that it would be possible to
> re-add implicit casts to text for bacwards compatibility with 8.2, since
> that would be much easier and smoother than testing all those installations
> and/or waiting for bug reports to start pouring in...
>
> I tried adding casts found here:
> http://code.open-bio.org/svnweb/index.cgi/biosql/revision?rev=284
>
> Function calls work fine now, but a new problem appeared with operators:
> SELECT EXTRACT(DAY FROM NOW()) || 'abc';
> ERROR: operator is not unique: double precision || unknown
>
> Is there a way to get around this?
>
You add the cast's but not the operator.
The cast is in other way (try to compare with a text '13')
for example.
>
> Regards,
> Aleksander
>
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