Re: Smallint - Integer Casting Problems in Plpgsql

On Thu, 2004-03-18 at 10:54, Jeff Eckermann wrote:
> --- Denis Gasparin <denis@edistar.com> wrote:
> >
> > >The type system was tightened up. It's been made
> > smarter for 7.5, but I'm not
> > >sure it deals with this.
> > >
> > I suspected it was so. I hope that in 7.5 the
> > problem will be solved
> > because i think it is more a bug than a feature and
> > many people will be
> > asking for it...
> >
> > I hope Tom Lane and the others Postgresql developers
> > will be reading this.
>
> If you search the mailing list archives you will find
> plenty of discussions on this issue, some quite
> recent.  If you still have issues or questions to
> raise after reading those discussions, then you will
> certainly not be wasting the developers' time by
> posting them.
>

I'll add that on the 7.5 install I tested this on (which admittedly is a
bit old), it was still "busted", so if you want to see this changed
you'll need to be a squeaky wheel.

Robert Treat
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