This is intentional --- implicit casts to text are gone. You should be
happy that the above now fails, because it's calling your attention to
the fact that you've got very ill-defined semantics there. Is the
thanks for clarification. actually it's not my app, i'm just a bystander which was asked about the issue :).
reasoning seems to be perfectly valid. i hope they will be happy with it as well :)
best regards,
depesz