2009/8/26 Greg Stark <gsst...@mit.edu>:
>> PostgreSQL does not automatically cast data between BOOLEAN and INT
>> PostgreSQL does not automatically cast data between INT and VARCHAR/CHAR
>
> These are things we've gone out of our way to NOT do. At some cost
> too. Being loose here makes it easy to miss errors in your SQL.


Actually it always bothered me that we don't have implicit casts from
integer->boolean. I can't see any ambiguity or unintentional effects
this would cause problems with. Am I missing something?


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greg
http://mit.edu/~gsstark/resume.pdf

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