2008/10/29 Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > "Pavel Stehule" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I understand. So every smallint should be call with casting? > > A long time ago we tried to make small integer literals be interpreted > as int2 initially, instead of int4, and the attempt failed rather > spectacularly. (It broke most of the regression tests, IIRC, in ways > that suggested that many client applications would have problems too.) > Perhaps PG's type system has matured to the point where it'd work better > now, but I'm not really interested in trying it. I don't see very much > point in declaring functions to take smallint rather than int anyway...
I found this question on one czech it specialized site. It's mostly beginner's problem. regards Pavel Stehule > > regards, tom lane > -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
