On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 05:26:40PM +0200, Daniel Schuchardt wrote: > David Fetter schrieb: >> That technical debt is a risk to your whole project, and you need >> to dedicate resources to paying it down. >> >> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical_debt> >> >> There are ways to get those automated casts, but they will only >> make your situation worse in the long run. > > *g* interesting standpoint and your right but: No buts. If you create those automated casts, you are just putting off the inevitable. > it is impossible for us to find all the points where the new 8.3 > behavoir would crash at the first time. so our next versions would > be very buggy and our customers wouldn't be happy ;-) the next > problem is that our service personal has to be traineed too; they > dont know much about casting, 81 does it automatically; problems > problems problems. > > if it is not possible (i know it is) ;-) to recreate automatic casts > in 83 we would not be able to upgrade to 83 the next years. the next > possible date would be in about 3-4 years with the next major > release. You're just confirming the fact that your project is in existential trouble. > PS: > our db has about 500 functions, 300 tables, 1000 indexes, 1200 Views > that all use implicit casting. and: everything is working fine ;-) > :-P How do you know? 8.3 removed the implicit casts precisely because they were producing results that could most generously be describe as "surprising." Cheers, David. -- David Fetter <david@xxxxxxxxxx> http://fetter.org/ Phone: +1 415 235 3778 AIM: dfetter666 Yahoo!: dfetter Skype: davidfetter XMPP: david.fetter@xxxxxxxxx Remember to vote! Consider donating to Postgres: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate
