How do you create casts in Postgres?
On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 3:24 PM, Andrew Sullivan <ajs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 02:55:03PM -0800, Mike Christensen wrote:Typically, they were cases when there was an ambiguity that the
> I'd be curious as to what types of bugs were caused by these implicit
> casts..
programmer didn't understand, causing applications to blow up in
surprising and wonderful ways.
There are things you can do if you're really prepared for the gun
aimed at your feet. Since you can create casts in Postgres, you can
actually add back many of the implicit casts yourself.
I think if the developers could write code that read minds, they'd be
> Such as implicitly cast iff the intention is not ambiguous
working on more profitable enterprises ;-)
Best,
A
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