Thanks, Stephan and Milen.
Everything is clear now.
I had a change in the behavior moving from 8.1 to 8.3, and the automatic
typecasting prior to 8.3 blurred the intended behavior as per the
documentation.
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On Mon, 8 Dec 2008, Benjamin Krajmalnik wrote:
> Thanks.
>
> Then we have an inconsistency between this and the documentation for the
> || operator, where it is showing the abilty to concat numeric types
> without explicit casting.
>
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/functions-string.htm
Milen A. Radev
>> Sent: Saturday, December 06, 2008 12:49 PM
>> To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
>> Subject: Re: [ADMIN] Change in behavior of string concat operator
>>
>> Benjamin Krajmalnik написа:
>>> I just migrated from 8.1 to 8.3, running on FreeBSD 7.0 a
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> Sent: Saturday, December 06, 2008 12:49 PM
> To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
> Subject: Re: [ADMIN] Change in behavior of string concat operator
>
> Benjamin Krajmalnik написа:
> > I just migrated from 8.1
Benjamin Krajmalnik написа:
> I just migrated from 8.1 to 8.3, running on FreeBSD 7.0 amd64.
> Running 8.3.5
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> Select userid::varchar || accountno::varchar || requestdate::date as
> newcolumn from table
> At the very least, the documentation should be updated to reflect the
> new behavior, a
