Re: MySQL Compatibility WAS: 8.5 release timetable, again

From: Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu>
To: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: MySQL Compatibility WAS: 8.5 release timetable, again
Date: 2009-08-26 22:22:41
Message-ID: 407d949e0908261522m26e27ae3l76db0d7945bfb9fc@mail.gmail.com
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2009/8/26 Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu>:
>> PostgreSQL does not automatically cast data between BOOLEAN and INT
>> PostgreSQL does not automatically cast data between INT and VARCHAR/CHAR
>
> These are things we've gone out of our way to NOT do. At some cost
> too. Being loose here makes it easy to miss errors in your SQL.

Actually it always bothered me that we don't have implicit casts from
integer->boolean. I can't see any ambiguity or unintentional effects
this would cause problems with. Am I missing something?

--
greg
http://mit.edu/~gsstark/resume.pdf

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