On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 09:13:09PM +0100, Greg Stark wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 8:27 PM, David Fetter<david@fetter.org> wrote:
> > I'm thinking that the unknown literal here should just cause an
> > error in the case of '+'. Same with '-', for what it's worth.
>
> That would make a lot of people very unhappy. They expect things
> like
>
> select date + '1 year'
>
> to just work.
We broke a lot more things than this when we got rid of implicit casts
to TEXT. :)
Cheers,
David.
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