Re: plpgsql: numeric assignment to an integer variable errors out

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
Cc: Nikhil Sontakke <nikhil(dot)sontakke(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: plpgsql: numeric assignment to an integer variable errors out
Date: 2010-02-27 03:27:16
Message-ID: 11846.1267241236@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> writes:
> Whatever happened to this patch?

I think we bounced it on the grounds that it would represent a
fundamental change in plpgsql behavior and break a whole lot of
applications. People have been relying on plpgsql's coerce-via-IO
assignment behavior for ten years. If you prefer coerce via
cast conversion, you can get that by writing an explicit cast.

Now it is true that a lot of the uses for that were subsumed when
we added coerce-via-IO to the native cast capabilities; but I'm
still quite scared of what this would break, and I don't see any
field demand for a change.

regards, tom lane

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