| From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Greg Sabino Mullane <greg(at)turnstep(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Prefered Types |
| Date: | 2011-05-11 22:05:27 |
| Message-ID: | 1305151322-sup-5881@alvh.no-ip.org |
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Excerpts from Tom Lane's message of dom may 08 23:00:27 -0400 2011:
> For
> example, if you start noticing an occasional integer overflow that
> didn't happen before, it might be pretty darn difficult to figure out
> that the problem is that an operation that was formerly resolved as int4
> + int4 is now resolved as int2 + int2.
About this particular example, I mentioned earlier that I preliminarly
consider the idea of changing the +(int2,int2) operator to return int4
instead of the current int2. It's not impossible that we will miss
changing some operators, but my hope is that it won't be that horrible.
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Álvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.
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