Re: interval * numeric operator

From: Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
To: "Josh Berkus" <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
Cc: "Peter Eisentraut" <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: interval * numeric operator
Date: 2007-11-08 13:37:28
Message-ID: 87pryk97tz.fsf@oxford.xeocode.com
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"Josh Berkus" <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> writes:

> Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> There are interval * double precision operators (both ways) but none for
>> interval * numeric. Adding this would make sense since interval is now
>> optionally stored as fixed-point internally. Any objections to adding this
>> in 8.4?
>
> +1
>
> I've been casting to Numeric anyway.

Shouldn't the cast be implicit anyways? What does having double precision
operators buy us? Wouldn't it introduce ambiguities?

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