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Re: Change in casting behavior?

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>

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From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
To: Thomas Swan <tswan@olemiss.edu>
Cc: Thomas Swan <tswan-lst@ics.olemiss.edu>, Postgresql Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2002-02-16T05:04:48Z
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Thomas Swan writes:

> As far as I was aware the correct behavior was to truncate the text representation to fit the
> field size or the 'casted' size.

The correct behaviour has been made even more correct in the 7.2 release.
;-)

> I simply thought I would mention as it caught me by surpris.

Should have read the release notes.

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Peter Eisentraut   peter_e@gmx.net