Bruce Momjian <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> Have we dealt with this?
>> With 6.4 or current sources, I find that coercing a datetime to float8
>> is a no-op:
With current sources I get
regression=> select t from dt1;
t
----------------------------
Mon Mar 15 09:56:01 1999 EST
(1 row)
regression=> select t::float8 from dt1;
ERROR: Bad float8 input format 'Mon Mar 15 09:56:01 1999 EST'
regression=>
which seems to be reasonable behavior. (I believe Tom made this
happen by removing binary equivalence between datetime and float8.)
regards, tom lane