On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 11:13:59PM +0530, Gurjeet Singh wrote:
> If we consider the second branch of UNION ALL of both the queries above, if
> "select '' " yields a text column, then so should a "select * from (select
> '')".
The problem is ofcourse that "select ''" doesn't produce a text column
i
On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 7:18 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> "Gurjeet Singh" writes:
> >> This is a horrendously bad idea; it will bite your *ss sooner or later,
> >> probably sooner.
>
> > Can you please let us know how this would be problematic?
>
> The point is that it's going to have unknown, untested
"Gurjeet Singh" writes:
>> This is a horrendously bad idea; it will bite your *ss sooner or later,
>> probably sooner.
> Can you please let us know how this would be problematic?
The point is that it's going to have unknown, untested effects on the
default coercion rules, possibly leading to sil
On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 6:31 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> "Gurjeet Singh" writes:
> > create cast (unknown as text) with function unknown2text( unknown ) as
> > implicit;
>
> This is a horrendously bad idea; it will bite your *ss sooner or later,
> probably sooner.
>
>regards, to
"Gurjeet Singh" writes:
> create cast (unknown as text) with function unknown2text( unknown ) as
> implicit;
This is a horrendously bad idea; it will bite your *ss sooner or later,
probably sooner.
regards, tom lane
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On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 2:24 AM, Gurjeet Singh wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 2:43 PM, Scott Marlowe
> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 2:04 AM, Gurjeet Singh
>> wrote:
>> > I took your cue, and have formulated this solution for 8.3.1 :
>>
>> Is there a good reason you're running against a db
On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 2:43 PM, Scott Marlowe wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 2:04 AM, Gurjeet Singh
> wrote:
> > I took your cue, and have formulated this solution for 8.3.1 :
>
> Is there a good reason you're running against a db version with known
> bugs instead of 8.3.5? Seriously, it's an e
On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 2:04 AM, Gurjeet Singh wrote:
> I took your cue, and have formulated this solution for 8.3.1 :
Is there a good reason you're running against a db version with known
bugs instead of 8.3.5? Seriously, it's an easy upgrade and running a
version missing over a year of updates
