Barry Lind <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> My feeling is that this change as currently scoped will break a lot of
> existing apps. Especially the case where people are using where clauses
> of the form: bigintcolumn = '999' to get a query to use the index on
> a column of type bigint.
Eh? That case will not change behavior in the slightest, because
there's no type conversion --- the literal is interpreted as the target
type to start with.
regards, tom lane
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