From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
To: Carol Walter <walterc@indiana.edu>
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Strongly typed?
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 12:13:19 -0300
Message-ID: <20090313151319.GD4379@alvh.no-ip.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9114EFEB-B699-4EC0-9201-35C0A49BC326@indiana.edu>
References: <9114EFEB-B699-4EC0-9201-35C0A49BC326@indiana.edu>
Carol Walter wrote:
> I'm moving from PostgreSQL 8.2.4 to PostgreSQL 8.3.6. When I restore
> the databases from the old instance to the new one, I get a lot of
> errors where the data types in keys don't match, e.g. the data type is
> integer in the base file but defined as numeric in the file that it is
> linked to. These are running databases so this situation must have been
> negotiated by 8.2 but not my 8.3. Is this something relatively new that
> I'm encountering, or is there a parameter someplace that I have set too
> tightly.
It's new -- some casts changed from implicit to explicit in 8.3.
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Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support
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