| From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
|---|---|
| To: | Kevin Grittner <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov> |
| Cc: | Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Ryan Bradetich <rbradetich(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Subject: | Re: [RFC] Unsigned integer support. |
| Date: | 2008-07-25 17:24:25 |
| Message-ID: | 20080725172425.GO9891@alvh.no-ip.org |
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Kevin Grittner escribió:
> >>> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> wrote:
>
> > 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;
>
> I wouldn't want the former to fail.
Sorry, I was unclear. What I meant was that both 0.42 + 1 and
'0.42' + 1 should be treated the same, and they should both produce a
numeric output.
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Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.
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