On Feb 17, 2012, at 4:12 PM, Josh Berkus wrote:
> On 2/17/12 12:04 PM, Robert Haas wrote:
>> The argument isn't about whether the user made the right design
>> choices; it's about whether he should be forced to insert an explicit
>> type cast to get the query to do what it is unambiguously intended to
>> do.
>
> I don't find INTEGER LIKE '1%' to be unambiguous.
>
> Prior to this discussion, if I had run across such a piece of code, I
> couldn't have told you what it would do in MySQL without testing.
If someone showed it to me without mention MySQL I'd say:
"oh, it's an error".
>
> What *does* it do in MySQL?
And knowing it's MySQL … "oh, probably *not* an error", but like you … I'd be mystified.
Should 01 like '0%' match?
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