Re: [PgFoundry] Unsigned Data Types [1 of 2]

"Jaime Casanova" <[email protected]> Sun, 7 Sep 2008 00:46:40 -0500

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On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 7:10 PM, Tom Lane <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Now, if (-255)::uint1 fails to throw error, that would be a bug IMHO.
> Casting any negative value to uint ought to fail, no?
>

then the patch is right but it seems to me like that is broking the
law of less surprise i expected -2::uint1 to be equivalent to
(-2)::uint1 that should be at least documented, no?

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