Jeff Davis wrote:
If postgresql were to revert to 8.2 implicit casting behavior, would
that actually improve compatibility with other DBMSs? Every DBMS
probably has it's own rules for implicit casting, different from every
other DBMS.
So are you sure it wouldn't just introduce more compatibility problems
somewhere else? Or worse, it could hide the problems during
migration/testing, and they could surface after you put it into
production.
In my opinion the autocasting behaviors of the database are probably
more consistent and fined tuned, than their explicit cast function. Or
in the least, they may actually *save* mistakes that (lay) programmers
would make (by adding casts for the sake of PG).
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