Carol Walter wrote:
> I'm moving from PostgreSQL 8.2.4 to PostgreSQL 8.3.6. When I restore
> the databases from the old instance to the new one, I get a lot of
> errors where the data types in keys don't match, e.g. the data type is
> integer in the base file but defined as numeric in the file that it is
> linked to. These are running databases so this situation must have been
> negotiated by 8.2 but not my 8.3. Is this something relatively new that
> I'm encountering, or is there a parameter someplace that I have set too
> tightly.
It's new -- some casts changed from implicit to explicit in 8.3.
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