Re: strange change (and error) in 8.3 ?

From: "hubert depesz lubaczewski" <depesz(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: postgresql-general <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: strange change (and error) in 8.3 ?
Date: 2007-06-14 17:39:50
Message-ID: 9e4684ce0706141039u5ee7fb3ev3f64cf176f9891e2@mail.gmail.com
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On 6/14/07, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>
> This is intentional --- implicit casts to text are gone. You should be
> happy that the above now fails, because it's calling your attention to
> the fact that you've got very ill-defined semantics there. Is the
>

thanks for clarification. actually it's not my app, i'm just a bystander
which was asked about the issue :).

reasoning seems to be perfectly valid. i hope they will be happy with it as
well :)

best regards,

depesz

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