Josh,
Thanks for the reply. Much of what you say is as we expected.
I see that 7.3 has addressed the "Unable to identify an operator
'=' for types 'numeric' and 'double precision'" problem, but
I'm not sure how. Context-sensitive approach? Overloaded operator
approach? Something else ( is the
"Josh Berkus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Now, that's interesting. Why would defining a "numeric = float" have
> broken "numeric = integer"? There's no reason I can think of.
The problem probably is that the parser now finds two possible
interpretations that look equally good to it, so it ca
Paul,
> "Unable to identify an operator '=' for types 'numeric' and 'double
> precision' You will have to retype this query using an explicit cast"
This is due, as you surmised, to decimal values defaulting to floats.
While there is little problem with an = operator for numeric and
float, you wo