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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: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Greg Stark <stark@mit.edu>, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, premanand <kottiprem@gmail.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2012-11-27T21:36:44Z
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On 11/25/12 6:36 PM, Robert Haas wrote:
> I think that is true.  But for whatever it's worth, and at the risk of
> beating a horse that seems not to be dead yet in spite of the fact
> that I feel I've already administered one hell of a beating, the LPAD
> case is unambiguous, and therefore it is hard to see what sort of
> programming mistake we are protecting users against.

Upstream applications passing wrong data down to the database.