Re: [HACKERS] 7.2 - 7.3 incompatibility

2003-02-11 Thread Hannu Krosing
On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 19:13, Peter Eisentraut wrote: Christopher Kings-Lynne writes: I found an example of a casting problem in our source code now that we're running 7.3: SELECT CURRENT_DATE - EXTRACT(DOW FROM CURRENT_DATE); A mathematically sound way to write this would be:

Re: [HACKERS] 7.2 - 7.3 incompatibility

2003-02-10 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Christopher Kings-Lynne writes: I found an example of a casting problem in our source code now that we're running 7.3: SELECT CURRENT_DATE - EXTRACT(DOW FROM CURRENT_DATE); A mathematically sound way to write this would be: select current_date - extract(dow from current_data) * interval '1

[HACKERS] 7.2 - 7.3 incompatibility

2003-02-02 Thread Christopher Kings-Lynne
I found an example of a casting problem in our source code now that we're running 7.3: SELECT CURRENT_DATE - EXTRACT(DOW FROM CURRENT_DATE); (Get's the start of the week); This worked in 7.2, but fails in 7.3 with: ERROR: Unable to identify an operator '-' for types 'date' and 'double