Re: auto-casting a bit more intelligent in 8.0 ... ?

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: auto-casting a bit more intelligent in 8.0 ... ?
Date: 2004-08-24 03:21:28
Message-ID: 27438.1093317688@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org> writes:
> so, its trying bigint = int, and not picking up the index ...

> the database server is 7.4.3 ... is this something that has been made a
> bit more intelligent in 8.0? other then casting 0 to bigint, is there
> something else I should be looking at doing? Having them go through all
> of their code and casting all ints to bigint for this sounds a bit extreme
> :(

Yes, no, and no kidding ;-). We've been getting beat on for *years*
about this behavior, but it took the proverbial Good Idea to find a
workable solution. Can't generate those on a schedule I'm afraid...

regards, tom lane

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