From: Stephan Szabo <sszabo@megazone.bigpanda.com>
To: Benjamin Krajmalnik <kraj@illumen.com>
Cc: Milen A. Radev <milen@radev.net>
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Change in behavior of string concat operator
Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2008 08:57:52 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <20081208085523.Y47606@megazone.bigpanda.com> (raw)
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On Mon, 8 Dec 2008, Benjamin Krajmalnik wrote:
> Thanks.
>
> Then we have an inconsistency between this and the documentation for the
> || operator, where it is showing the abilty to concat numeric types
> without explicit casting.
>
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/functions-string.html
What that page appears to say in the note and table is that you can
concatenate a string and a non-string like varchar and integer, not
multiple non-strings like numeric and integer. What specifically were you
looking at on the page?
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Subject: Re: Change in behavior of string concat operator
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