On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 06:07, Richard Huxton wrote:
> PG's parser will assume an explicit number is an int4 - if you need an int8
> etc you'll need to cast it, yes.
Or enclose the integer literal in single quotes.
> You should find plenty of discussion of why in the archives, but the short
> reason is that PG's type structure is quite flexible which means it can't
> afford to make too many assumptions.
Well, it's definitely a bug in PG, it's "quite flexible" type structure
notwithstanding.
-Neil