"Dawid Kuroczko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> What troubles me here is that surprise factor is unusally high here.
> While I understand mechanics why IN (1) works while IN (1,2) does not,
> I think random developers are going to be confused.

If you're not testing against 8.3 then this argument doesn't carry much
weight.  8.3 will reject *both* cases in the examples you've mentioned.

> PS: I wonder why explicitly using IN (ARRAY[...]) works.

Um, it does not work AFAICS:

regression=# select 'foo'::varchar in (array[1,2,3]);
ERROR:  operator does not exist: character varying = integer[]
LINE 1: select 'foo'::varchar in (array[1,2,3]);
                              ^
HINT:  No operator matches the given name and argument type(s). You may need to 
add explicit type casts.

                        regards, tom lane

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