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Re: MySQL search query is not executing in Postgres DB

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Greg Stark <stark@mit.edu>, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>, premanand <kottiprem@gmail.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2012-08-29T19:54:52Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> On 8/29/12 11:40 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> regression=# select lpad(42,8);

> We are not seriously intending to make the above query work, are we?

Well, *I* don't want to, but apparently Robert does.

I don't really want to go much further than finding a way to handle the
"integer constant passed to smallint function argument" case.  Maybe we
should consider a narrow fix for that rather than opening up the general
assignment-cast scenario.

			regards, tom lane