On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 04:09:27PM +0200, Jan Flokstra wrote: [...] > We were aware of this tail type and that's why we created the cast. Henning > was a bit hesitant to change the bat type to [oid,oid] because he expected > problems with '<' and '>' so we decided to create the extra cast.
What kind of problems do you mean? Clean and proper use of types should prevent such problems; "arbitrary" casting calls for such (and other) problems. Hence, choose the proper types at all places, and cast as little as possible. (just my humble advice) Stefan > The value can never be negative so we never checked for this. We could > make it an assert(); > Furthermore the text //64bit ERROR was to remind us of our own error on > 64bit > oid arch's and not an error of monetdb. > > JanF. [...] -- | Dr. Stefan Manegold | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | CWI, P.O.Box 94079 | http://www.cwi.nl/~manegold/ | | 1090 GB Amsterdam | Tel.: +31 (20) 592-4212 | | The Netherlands | Fax : +31 (20) 592-4312 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Monetdb-developers mailing list Monetdb-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/monetdb-developers
