Chapman Flack <c...@anastigmatix.net> writes: > I wonder whether even changing a formerly-implicit cast to explicit > would be too much of a behavior change for existing code that expects > the current behavior?
We did exactly that during the 8.3 cycle, and got one heck of a lot of pushback about it, despite the existence of a lot of examples showing that it would be a good idea. I won't say we can't do it again, but it won't be an easy sell. regards, tom lane