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From: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
To: pogden@claresco.com
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Inconsistent or incomplete behavior obverse in where
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 11:13:09 -0800
Message-ID: <200211121113.09365.josh@agliodbs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <NAEOJBHEEOEHNNICGFADEENEDEAA.pogden@claresco.com>
References: <NAEOJBHEEOEHNNICGFADEENEDEAA.pogden@claresco.com>


Paul,

> Thanks for the reply.  Much of what you say is as we expected.  
> I see that 7.3 has addressed the "Unable to identify an operator 
> '=' for types 'numeric' and 'double precision'" problem, but 
> I'm not sure how.  Context-sensitive approach? Overloaded operator
> approach? Something else ( is there )?

A modification of the operators available.

> If the release of 7.3 is soon, perhaps we can get by with the 
> band-aid approach of overloading the comparison operators 
> until such time as the new version is available.  Production
> for us is next spring, so maybe we'll be okay on this one.
> This approach would certainly allow our development team to
> right their code one way.

7.3 final is expected before December.

-- 
-Josh Berkus




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