Re: [HACKERS] plpgsql doesn't coerce boolean expressions to boolean

Tom Lane wrote:
> Manfred Koizar <mkoi-pg(at)aon(dot)at> writes:
> > On Mon, 08 Sep 2003 11:40:32 -0400, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
> > wrote:
> >> 4. Use the parser's coerce_to_boolean procedure, so that nonbooleans
> >> will be accepted in exactly the same cases where they'd be accepted
> >> in a boolean-requiring SQL construct (such as CASE). (By default,
> >> none are, so this isn't really different from #2. But people could
> >> create casts to boolean to override this behavior in a controlled
> >> fashion.)
>
> > I vote for 4.
>
> I'm willing to do that.

OK, what release should we do this?

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