Re: Small bug with numeric in 7.0 (also in 6.5.3)

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

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Raul Chirea <raul@brahms.ro>
Cc: pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org
Date: 2000-05-16T22:46:24Z
Lists: pgsql-bugs
Raul Chirea <raul@brahms.ro> writes:
> This problem bothers me because if one (me, for example ;-) tries to
> use a client program that compose the select automaticaly (i.e. Delphi
> table component) and there is no way to manually cast that expression
> (i.e. "where <numeric_field> = 12345.67::numeric") this is a real problem !

Yeah, we know :-(.  However, fixing it right --- that is, not simply
transferring the breakage to someone else --- is not all that simple.
We're working on it...

			regards, tom lane