Neil Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 06:07, Richard Huxton wrote: >> You should find plenty of discussion of why in the archives, but the short >> reason is that PG's type structure is quite flexible which means it can't >> afford to make too many assumptions.
> Well, it's definitely a bug in PG, it's "quite flexible" type structure > notwithstanding. Let's say it's something we'd really like to fix ;-) ... and will, as soon as we can figure out a cure that's not worse than the disease. Dorking around with the semantics of numeric expressions has proven to be a risky business. See, eg, the thread starting here: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2002-11/msg00468.php regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org
