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Re: Proposal for fixing numeric type-resolution issues

Peter Eisentraut <e99re41@docs.uu.se>

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From: Peter Eisentraut <e99re41@DoCS.UU.SE>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2000-06-13T13:00:44Z
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On Tue, 13 Jun 2000, Tom Lane wrote:

> IIRC, there was some unhappiness with the proposal you quote, so I'm
> not sure we've quite agreed what to do... but clearly something must
> be done.

You might want to look at SQL99, too. It contains a type system and has
something to say on these issues. At least I would hate to see something
flat-out incompatible drawn up.


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