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Re: MySQL search query is not executing in Postgres DB

Peter Geoghegan <peter@2ndquadrant.com>

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From: Peter Geoghegan <peter@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, 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: 2012-11-26T00:36:31Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On 26 November 2012 00:24, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
> I remember this sort of thing un-fondly from my C++ days, but it
> doesn't make me like our current behavior any better.

You can also make a constructor with a single argument "explicit", and
thereby prevent implicit conversions. So yes, C++ distinguishes
between
explicit, assignment, and implicit casting in a way that is, in broad
strokes, at least as sophisticated as PostgreSQL.

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