Ken Johanson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Here's one Mysql developer's response to adding (fixing) the > integer/bigint/tinyint types to their CAST function:
> http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=34562 Hmm ... while I'm certainly not someone to defend mysql on a regular basis, I can see their point of view here. They are supporting a limited (and clearly documented) subset of the SQL spec in this area, so it's surely a feature request rather than a bug that they don't support more. The disagreement seems to come down to what the priority of the feature addition ought to be. We have a few sore spots of our own on questions like this one, so I'm disinclined to throw the first stone ... regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly