Re: there is a way to deactivate type validation on 8.3.1????

On 05/28/2010 11:45 AM, erobles wrote:
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> On 05/28/2010 01:26 PM, Adrian Klaver wrote:
>> On 05/28/2010 11:20 AM, erobles wrote:
>>> hi!
>>> only for ask, there is a way to deactivate type validation, so i can do
>>>
>>> select rtrim(number_field) from table ; with no error and the message:
>>> "You might need to explicit type casts"
>>>
>>> this is postgres 8.3.1.
>>>
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>> What are you trying to do? I am trying to think what rtrim does on a
>> number.
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> you are right, i'm trying to make a rtrim to a number.
> the reason of my question is we have a lot of apps with similar querys ,
> when we have postgres7.2 this kind of querys just simply execute very
> well, so.. when change to postgres 8.3 this querys fail beacuse they
> needit an explicit cast.
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> one solution is change the querys of apps and recompile, but time is
> short and the deadline is near.
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> other solution is create a function to each explicit cast, but we dont
> have the time to research if there are more mismatch querys.
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> so the easy way is deactivate the validation type ...
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> so another
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For short term solution see here:
http://petereisentraut.blogspot.com/2008/03/readding-implicit-casts-in-postgresql.html


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Adrian Klaver
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