On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 02:08:03PM -0500, Andrew Biagioni wrote: > > So finally, my question. Why is this behavior present? Is it actually > a feature that I don't know enough to appreciate?
It's the side-effect of some other features in the system. If you search on -hackers archives you'll find several attempts to find a solution to this little problem; all of them have failed so far, AFAIK. There was talk of making the int4-to-int8 case behave more reasonably in 7.4, but I don't know whether it's been done. A -- ---- Andrew Sullivan 204-4141 Yonge Street Afilias Canada Toronto, Ontario Canada <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> M2P 2A8 +1 416 646 3304 x110 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])