Re: [HACKERS] Blowback from text conversion changes

2007-06-25 Thread Tom Lane
Gregory Stark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This seems odd. It's not deciding that it's ambiguous or coming from another > datatype for which no implicit cast exists. It knows perfectly well that it > wants to convert to text but fails? > postgres=# select 'a'||b from (select 'b' as b) as x; > ERR

Re: [HACKERS] Blowback from text conversion changes

2007-06-25 Thread D'Arcy J.M. Cain
On Mon, 25 Jun 2007 17:56:28 +0100 Gregory Stark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This seems odd. It's not deciding that it's ambiguous or coming from another > datatype for which no implicit cast exists. It knows perfectly well that it > wants to convert to text but fails? > > > postgres=# select