Re: Change in behavior of string concat operator

Thanks.

Then we have an inconsistency between this and the documentation for the || operator, where it is showing the abilty to
concatnumeric types without explicit casting. 

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/functions-string.html


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> Subject: Re: [ADMIN] Change in behavior of string concat operator
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> Benjamin Krajmalnik написа:
> > I just migrated from 8.1 to 8.3, running on FreeBSD 7.0 amd64.
> > Running 8.3.5
> [...]
> > Select userid::varchar || accountno::varchar ||
> requestdate::date as
> > newcolumn from table At the very least, the documentation should be
> > updated to reflect the new behavior, although I believe
> this is a bug.
>
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> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/release-8-3.html
> #AEN86272
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