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Re: MySQL search query is not executing in Postgres DB

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>

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From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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: 2012-08-29T18:14:56Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On 8/29/12 11:40 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
>>> regression=# select lpad(42,8);
>>> >>ERROR:  failed to find conversion function from integer to text
>>> >>I'm not sure why that's happening, either, but evidently some
>>> >>additional coercion laxity would required.
>> >This, however, is a trivial problem; make_fn_arguments just didn't get
>> >the memo that it might now need to look for assignment casts.  See
>> >attached.
> Meh.  I'm a bit worried about whether that might have unexpected
> consequences, too.

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