| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | "Robert 'BoBsoN' Partyka" <bobson(at)bobson(dot)pl> |
| Cc: | pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: BUG #4478: = operator in connection with CASE looks like loose some functionality (bug or feature?) |
| Date: | 2008-10-21 21:08:46 |
| Message-ID: | 9231.1224623326@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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"Robert 'BoBsoN' Partyka" <bobson(at)bobson(dot)pl> writes:
> In construction "... ind = case ..." automagic conversion from text to
> integer is not done anymore in 8.3.* - you must cast it manually.
> Is this bug or feature? (for me it looks like bug).
It's intentional.
> If this is feature then I think it should be documented in manual and
> probably in some migration documentation.
See the first item under the 8.3 migration caveats:
"Non-character data types are no longer automatically cast to TEXT"
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/release-8-3.html
regards, tom lane
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