Does this mean that in the future '342' may not be valid as an insert into a numeric field and that we should be using 342 instead?
On Wednesday 27 November 2002 05:07 pm, (Via wrote: > 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. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
