Re: Boolean casting in 7.3 -> changed?

Ian Barwick writes:

> "Casting integers to boolean (for example, 0::bool) is no longer allowed,
> use '0'::bool instead".

This advice would probably only cause more confusion, because we are now
moving into the direction that character strings are no longer acceptable
as numeric data.

Note that

x <> 0

is also a perfectly good way to convert integers to booleans, and a more
portable one at that.

Finally, you can always create your own cast.

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Peter Eisentraut   peter_e@gmx.net