Re: Getting back the autocast on non-character via CREATE CAST

On Thursday 27 November 2008 8:17:10 pm Александър Шопов wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> In pg 8.2 to 8.3 transition there is a new behavior: Non-character data
> types are no longer automatically cast to TEXT
>
> I understand the reasons, however while we manage to migrate the our
> system, is there a way to get back this behavior? I searched the
> internet and the mailing lists but I found no other solution but
> installing back 8.2.
>
> I tried to do the following:
>
> create table test (i integer);
>
> insert into test values (1);
>
> select * from test where i = (case when '0'<>'' then '1' else null end);

Try:
select * from test where i = (case when '0'<>'' then '1' else null end)::int;

>
>
> ERROR: operator does not exist: integer = text
> LINE 1: select * from test where i = (case when '0'<>'' then '1' els...
> ^
> HINT: No operator matches the given name and argument type(s). You
> might need to add explicit type casts.
>
>

>
> Kind regards:
> al_shopov

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