Robert Haas <
robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 2:55 PM, Tom Lane <
tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> Oh, I'd forgotten that worked that way. Frankly, that makes me quite a
>> bit more concerned about this proposal than I was before. I do *not*
>> want to re-introduce silent cross-category casts to text, not even if
>> there's no other way to match the function/operator. I think that hack
>> was/is tolerable for actual assignment to a table column, because there
>> is very little chance that the semantics of such an assignment will come
>> out differently than the user expected.
> Well, I think that when there is only one LPAD function, there is also
> very little chance that the results will come out differently than the
> user expected.
[ shrug... ] I'm having a hard time resisting the temptation to point