From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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To: | Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> |
Cc: | Ryan Bradetich <rbradetich(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: [RFC] Unsigned integer support. |
Date: | 2008-07-25 16:44:08 |
Message-ID: | 20080725164408.GN9891@alvh.no-ip.org |
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Gregory Stark escribió:
> "Alvaro Herrera" <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
>
> > Hmm, if we do that, how would the system resolve something like this?
> >
> > select 1000 + 1000
>
> Well we have the same problem with 'foo' || 'bar'. The question I think is
> whether the solution there scales to having two different fallback types.
Hmm, right. But you need more than two: consider
alvherre=# select 0.42 + 1;
?column?
----------
1.42
(1 ligne)
However, it would be neat if this behaved the same as
alvherre=# select '0.42' + 1;
ERROR: invalid input syntax for integer: "0.42"
STATEMENT: select '0.42' + 1;
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Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.
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