On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 7:10 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
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> Now, if (-255)::uint1 fails to throw error, that would be a bug IMHO.
> Casting any negative value to uint ought to fail, no?
>
then the patch is right but it seems to me like that is broking the
law of less surprise i expected -2::uint1 to be equivalent to
(-2)::uint1 that should be at least documented, no?
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