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From: Kirill Yukhin <kyukhin@tarantool.org>
To: Peter Gulutzan <pgulutzan@ocelot.ca>
Cc: tarantool-discussions@dev.tarantool.org
Subject: Re: [Tarantool-discussions] Implicit cast for ASSIGNMENT
Date: Fri, 8 May 2020 14:57:54 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200508115754.v6ss2a6u2zqwo2q4@tarantool.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a41c1c2d-b9dc-5f81-40ef-d40fabd80041@ocelot.ca>

Hello,

On 07 май 10:14, Peter Gulutzan wrote:
> Update: K. Yukhin has re-opened
> issue#4216 Silent NUMBER cast to INTEGER
> https://github.com/tarantool/tarantool/issues/4216
> and K. Osipov wrote:
> > OK, I didn't know it's ANSI. I withdraw my previous remarks and
> > side with Peter. Please do as he says about implicit casts of
> > numeric types.
> 
> Therefore I believe that everyone agrees with you,
> "Values ​​of numeric types can be implicitly cast to other numeric"
> for assignments.

I guess so.
 
> Therefore ...
> 
> This will be true for anything that has a numeric data type,
> now or in the planned future
> (DECIMAL, DOUBLE, INTEGER, NUMBER, UNSIGNED).
> 
> Maybe this will be true for STRING.
> UPDATE table_name SET integer_column = '1.1';
> I said that is bad but I don't decide.

I don't like the idea. We were talking about NUMBERIC-NUMERIC
conversions.

--
Regards, Kirill Yukhin

  reply	other threads:[~2020-05-08 11:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-02-13 14:25 Mergen Imeev
2020-02-13 14:40 ` Konstantin Osipov
2020-02-13 22:20 ` Peter Gulutzan
2020-04-30 12:04 ` Imeev Mergen
2020-04-30 12:35   ` Konstantin Osipov
2020-04-30 12:56     ` Imeev Mergen
2020-04-30 13:09       ` Konstantin Osipov
2020-04-30 13:12         ` Imeev Mergen
2020-04-30 14:04           ` Konstantin Osipov
2020-04-30 14:15             ` Peter Gulutzan
2020-04-30 14:28               ` Konstantin Osipov
2020-04-30 14:40   ` Peter Gulutzan
2020-04-30 15:10     ` Imeev Mergen
2020-04-30 16:04       ` Peter Gulutzan
2020-05-07 16:14         ` Peter Gulutzan
2020-05-08 11:57           ` Kirill Yukhin [this message]
2020-04-30 22:52       ` [Tarantool-discussions] Descriptive SQL Style Guide Peter Gulutzan

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