Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakan...@enterprisedb.com> writes:
> Does anyone object to making BETWEEN and IN more strict about the data
> types? At the moment, you can do this:
> postgres=# SELECT '1234' BETWEEN '10001'::text AND 10002::int4;
> ?column?
> ----------
> t
> (1 row)
> I'm thinking that it should throw an error. Same with IN, if the values
> in the IN-list can't be coerced to a common type.
You *will* get push-back on that ... maybe from people with badly coded
applications, but I guarantee there will be complaints.
regards, tom lane
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