Re: [RFC] Unsigned integer support.

Gregory Stark escribió:
> "Alvaro Herrera" <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
>
> > Hmm, if we do that, how would the system resolve something like this?
> >
> > select 1000 + 1000
>
> Well we have the same problem with 'foo' || 'bar'. The question I think is
> whether the solution there scales to having two different fallback types.

Hmm, right. But you need more than two: consider

alvherre=# select 0.42 + 1;
?column?
----------
1.42
(1 ligne)

However, it would be neat if this behaved the same as

alvherre=# select '0.42' + 1;
ERROR: invalid input syntax for integer: "0.42"
STATEMENT: select '0.42' + 1;

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