Re: Bug/Change in behavior for 7.3 vs 7.2.1

Then shouldn't this appear on the "Open 7.3 issues" list that has been 
circulating around?  This seems like an open issue to me, that needs to 
be addressed before 7.3 ships.

--Barry

Tom Lane wrote:

>Barry Lind <barry@xythos.com> writes:
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>>You can no long insert large values into a bigint column without a 
>>cast.
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>This seems to be fallout from the move to tighten up implicit coercions
>(cf http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2002-04/msg00528.php
>as well as lots of earlier discussions).
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>I said right along that this topic needed more debate, but we haven't
>gotten back to looking at it.  We have a number of other nasty behaviors
>in current sources that trace back to altering the set of available
>coercions.
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>            regards, tom lane
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