Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 12:13:19 -0300
From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
To: Carol Walter <walterc@indiana.edu>
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Strongly typed?
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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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