From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Ken Johanson <pg-user@kensystem.com>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: SQL standards in Mysql
Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2008 00:50:23 -0500
Message-ID: <13414.1203745823@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47BF1B32.2050800@kensystem.com>
References: <47BF1B32.2050800@kensystem.com>
Ken Johanson <pg-user@kensystem.com> writes:
> Here's one Mysql developer's response to adding (fixing) the
> integer/bigint/tinyint types to their CAST function:
> http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=34562
Hmm ... while I'm certainly not someone to defend mysql on a regular
basis, I can see their point of view here. They are supporting a
limited (and clearly documented) subset of the SQL spec in this area,
so it's surely a feature request rather than a bug that they don't
support more. The disagreement seems to come down to what the priority
of the feature addition ought to be. We have a few sore spots of our
own on questions like this one, so I'm disinclined to throw the first
stone ...
regards, tom lane
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