Tom Lane wrote:
Kenneth Downs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Basically, it "knows what you mean" when you do substrings on dates and
numbers, doing an implicit cast for you.
Implicit casts to text are evil, and are mostly going to be gone in 8.3.
So try not to rely on this behavior ...
Based on general principle, or on specific bad things like unexpected or
ill-defined results?
regards, tom lane
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