Gregory Stark escribió:
> "Alvaro Herrera" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> > Hmm, if we do that, how would the system resolve something like this?
> >
> > select 1000 + 1000
> 
> Well we have the same problem with 'foo' || 'bar'. The question I think is
> whether the solution there scales to having two different fallback types.

Hmm, right.  But you need more than two: consider

alvherre=# select 0.42 + 1;
 ?column? 
----------
     1.42
(1 ligne)

However, it would be neat if this behaved the same as

alvherre=# select '0.42' + 1;
ERROR:  invalid input syntax for integer: "0.42"
STATEMENT:  select '0.42' + 1;

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