Re: MySQL Compatibility WAS: 8.5 release timetable, again

Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu> writes:
> Actually it always bothered me that we don't have implicit casts from
> integer->boolean. I can't see any ambiguity or unintentional effects
> this would cause problems with. Am I missing something?

Personally, as an old Pascal-lover, I always thought that C's failure
to distinguish between int and boolean was the single biggest design
mistake in the language.  I'm very glad that SQL doesn't make that
mistake, and I don't want to go against the standard to introduce it.
        regards, tom lane