Re: MySQL Compatibility WAS: 8.5 release timetable, again

From: Boszormenyi Zoltan <zb(at)cybertec(dot)at>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: MySQL Compatibility WAS: 8.5 release timetable, again
Date: 2009-08-27 10:07:12
Message-ID: 4A965AD0.60605@cybertec.at
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Tom Lane írta:
> Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu> writes:
>
>> 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?
>>
>
> Personally, as an old Pascal-lover, I always thought that C's failure
> to distinguish between int and boolean was the single biggest design
> mistake in the language.

On the other hand, the first two programming languages I have learnt
was Sinclair ZX Spectrum BASIC and Z80 assembly,
I welcomed C being so near to assembly... :-)

> I'm very glad that SQL doesn't make that
> mistake, and I don't want to go against the standard to introduce it.
>

In that we agree. SQL is not C.

Best regards,
Zoltán Böszörményi

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