| From: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Greg Stark <stark(at)mit(dot)edu>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, premanand <kottiprem(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: MySQL search query is not executing in Postgres DB |
| Date: | 2012-08-28 17:32:51 |
| Message-ID: | CA+Tgmob2-EVgYAxMxyL4j5rOd+BpCv0Jj4TO9Jp4eyvMXXqaSw@mail.gmail.com |
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On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 1:06 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Also, right at the moment it's not clear to me whether there are any
> other cases besides integer literal vs smallint argument. I think
> that's the only particularly surprising case within the numeric
> hierarchy --- and for non-numeric types, the literal is generally going
> to start out "unknown" so the whole problem doesn't arise. I feel
> uncomfortable trying to invent general-purpose solutions to problems
> we have only one instance of ...
The other case that comes up regularly is someone trying to pass some
kind of number to a function such as LPAD(). There is only one LPAD()
so no ambiguity exists, but PostgreSQL doesn't even see that there's a
candidate.
--
Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company
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