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From: Tomas Doran <bobtfish@bobtfish.net>
Subject: Potential bug in postgres 8.2.4
Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 12:20:54 +0100
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org

I'm not sure if this is a bug, or not - but it looks like one to me.

if you say:

CREATE TABLE testtable (
     col1   char(1),
    data   text
);

INSERT INTO testtable (col1, data) VALUES ('1', 'foobar');
INSERT INTO testtable (col1, data) VALUES ('2', 'foobarbaz');

The following queries all work:
INSERT INTO testtable (col1, data) VALUES (3::int, 'foobarbazquux');
SELECT * FROM testtable WHERE col1 = 3::int;
SELECT * FROM testtable WHERE col1 IN (1);
SELECT * FROM testtable WHERE col1 IN (1::int);

However these querys fail on 8.2.4, but work correctly on 8.1:
SELECT * FROM testtable WHERE col1 IN (1::int, 2::int);
SELECT * FROM testtable WHERE col1 IN (1, 2);

I could understand if the behavior was the same for single element IN  
clauses, and multiple element IN clauses - however as their behavior  
is different, and it used to work in 8.1....

Cheers
Tom