On 09/07/2014 02:24 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
>>> >> The problem here seems to be only related to mistyped parameters. Can
>>> >> we contain the damage to that part only somehow? Or make this optional
>>> >> (defaulting to off, I hope)?
>> > I'd love to make it affect only parameters, actually, for v3
Craig Ringer writes:
> On 09/05/2014 05:04 PM, Marko Tiikkaja wrote:
>> I really don't like the idea of relaxing casts. And I really object to
>> the notion of casting from test to date being "obviously right".
> Gah. It's obviously right to *reject* implicit conversions like
> text->date. I spe
On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 2:04 AM, Craig Ringer wrote:
> On 09/05/2014 12:04 AM, Pavel Stehule wrote:
>>
>> But some missing casts are well - I found lot performance issues based
>> on using wrong data types - integers, dates in text column.
>
> Of course! That's why the default implicit casts were r
On 9/5/14 11:08 AM, Craig Ringer wrote:
On 09/05/2014 05:04 PM, Marko Tiikkaja wrote:
I really don't like the idea of relaxing casts. And I really object to
the notion of casting from test to date being "obviously right".
Gah. It's obviously right to *reject* implicit conversions like
text->
On 09/05/2014 05:04 PM, Marko Tiikkaja wrote:
>
> I really don't like the idea of relaxing casts. And I really object to
> the notion of casting from test to date being "obviously right".
Gah. It's obviously right to *reject* implicit conversions like
text->date. I specifically do _not_ want to
On 9/5/14 9:04 AM, Craig Ringer wrote:
It's easy to object to this on type-purist grounds, but from a pragmatic
real-users point of view what we currently do is outright painful, and
unless we can go and fix every language binding, every query generator,
every ORM, etc to handle things just how P
On 09/05/2014 12:04 AM, Pavel Stehule wrote:
>
> But some missing casts are well - I found lot performance issues based
> on using wrong data types - integers, dates in text column.
Of course! That's why the default implicit casts were removed, and for
good reason. I'm only talking about a narrow
