From: Gregory Stark <stark@enterprisedb.com>
To: 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: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 01:06:55 +0000
Message-ID: <87r6ivq7gw.fsf@oxford.xeocode.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071113001323.GA5255@crankycanuck.ca>
References: <200711121442.31233.josh@agliodbs.com>
<20071113001323.GA5255@crankycanuck.ca>
"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.
--
Gregory Stark
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