From: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Sorry..
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 14:01:38 -0700
Message-ID: <200207151401.38968.josh@agliodbs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7344.1026703661@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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<7344.1026703661@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Christopher,
> In the bad old days when we couldn't distinguish explicit from implicit
> cast functions, I was wary of adding new cast pathways. Too many
> implicit casts and you have no type system at all. But in 7.3 there
> should be no reason to object to an explicit-only cast from numeric
> to text or vice versa.
I'd suggest making the explicit cast of numeric to text be the exact
equivalent of:
SELECT btrim(to_char(numeric, '999,999,999,999.9999999999'))
or similar.
--
-Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco
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