From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
To: Gregory Stark <stark@enterprisedb.com>
Cc: Andrew Sullivan <ajs@crankycanuck.ca>
Cc: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
Cc: pgsql-advocacy@postgresql.org
Cc: pgsql-docs@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Avoiding upgrade backlash
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 23:12:52 -0500 (EST)
Message-ID: <200711130412.lAD4CqT16853@momjian.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r6ivq7gw.fsf@oxford.xeocode.com>
Gregory Stark wrote:
> "Andrew Sullivan" <ajs@crankycanuck.ca> writes:
>
> > IMPLICIT TYPECASTS HAVE BEEN MOSTLY REMOVED. TEST YOUR APPLICATION!
>
> I think you have to say that without using the technical gobbledygook
> "implicit casts".
>
> Something like:
>
> Non-strings are no longer converted automatically to strings when used in
> places where strings are expected. You must now explicitly cast non-strings to
> strings if you want to apply string operations on them.
I think you need to show actual examples of problem queries.
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