Re: Avoiding upgrade backlash

From: Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
To: Andrew Sullivan <ajs(at)crankycanuck(dot)ca>
Cc: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org, pgsql-docs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Avoiding upgrade backlash
Date: 2007-11-13 01:06:55
Message-ID: 87r6ivq7gw.fsf@oxford.xeocode.com
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"Andrew Sullivan" <ajs(at)crankycanuck(dot)ca> writes:

> IMPLICIT TYPECASTS HAVE BEEN MOSTLY REMOVED. TEST YOUR APPLICATION!

I think you have to say that without using the technical gobbledygook
"implicit casts".

Something like:

Non-strings are no longer converted automatically to strings when used in
places where strings are expected. You must now explicitly cast non-strings to
strings if you want to apply string operations on them.

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Gregory Stark
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