On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 1:05 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Robert Haas writes:
>> I am not too sure that the distinction between implicit casts and
>> assignment casts is all that useful;
>
> We've been there and done that; it doesn't work. The current scheme
> was invented specifically because a two-way
Robert Haas writes:
> I am not too sure that the distinction between implicit casts and
> assignment casts is all that useful;
We've been there and done that; it doesn't work. The current scheme
was invented specifically because a two-way design didn't work.
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql
On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 12:26 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Robert Haas writes:
>> Maybe the lexer isn't the right place to fix this. The problem here
>> (or so I gather) is that if I say foo(1), then 1 is an integer and
>> we'll do an "implicit" cast to bigint, real, double precision,
>> numeric, oid, o
Alvaro Herrera writes:
> Excerpts from Tom Lane's message of vie sep 03 19:36:06 -0400 2010:
>> On the whole I'm still afraid that changing the initial typing of
>> integer constants is going to break a lot of code while buying not much.
>> Do you have a specific reason for reopening the issue? O
Robert Haas writes:
> Maybe the lexer isn't the right place to fix this. The problem here
> (or so I gather) is that if I say foo(1), then 1 is an integer and
> we'll do an "implicit" cast to bigint, real, double precision,
> numeric, oid, or reg*, but the cast to smallint is assignment-only.
> B
On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 9:19 PM, Alvaro Herrera
wrote:
> The problem I'm facing is functions declared to take type smallint not
> working unless the integer literal has an explicit cast. Currently the
> best answer is simply to avoid using smallint in functions, but this
> isn't completely satisfy
Excerpts from Tom Lane's message of vie sep 03 19:36:06 -0400 2010:
> > Does anyone know where to find the discussion refered to here?
> > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-10/msg01485.php
>
> I think this was the last time I tried it:
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hacker
Alvaro Herrera writes:
> I'm researching if smallint can be made a higher-class citizen of our type
> system than currently.
> Does anyone know where to find the discussion refered to here?
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-10/msg01485.php
I think this was the last time I tried
Hi,
I'm researching if smallint can be made a higher-class citizen of our type
system than currently.
Does anyone know where to find the discussion refered to here?
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-10/msg01485.php
I did some searches on the archives but no keywords I search for
