Re: Strict-typing benefits/costs

Jeff Davis wrote:
> If postgresql were to revert to 8.2 implicit casting behavior, would
> that actually improve compatibility with other DBMSs? Every DBMS
> probably has it's own rules for implicit casting, different from every
> other DBMS.
>
> So are you sure it wouldn't just introduce more compatibility problems
> somewhere else? Or worse, it could hide the problems during
> migration/testing, and they could surface after you put it into
> production.

In my opinion the autocasting behaviors of the database are probably
more consistent and fined tuned, than their explicit cast function. Or
in the least, they may actually *save* mistakes that (lay) programmers
would make (by adding casts for the sake of PG).