On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 9:49 AM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > Kyotaro HORIGUCHI <horiguchi.kyot...@lab.ntt.co.jp> writes: >> Hello. I found that 9.5 has an undocumented difference from 9.4 >> in type cast in pl/pgsql and I think it might better be mentioned >> as a change of behavior in release notes. > >> Whether do you think it is worth mentioning or not in release notes? > > This seems unnecessarily alarmist to me. Anybody who's in the habit > of converting between float4 and float8 will already be used to this > behavior, because it is what has always happened everywhere else in > the system.
Sure, but that doesn't mean nobody's functions will start behaving differently. It seems worth mentioning as a backward compatibility issue to me, because if something breaks, it may not be immediately obvious why it has gotten broken. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
