Re: Re: CAST() no longer working with OOO 330m16

Fernand Vanrie <[email protected]> Wed, 08 Dec 2010 18:15:53 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.openoffice.dba.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Alex ,

its also a fact that there are (better) alternatives for cast  Date() 
convert() or even left() and right()
> Hi Fernand,
>
> Done, but whether it will make any difference ? Its not a blocker because it doesn't cause a crash, or lose your data, but it is surely a regression from 3.2.
>
>
> Alex
>
>
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> ----- "Fernand Vanrie"<[email protected]>  a écrit :
>
>> Alexander ,
>>
>> It sould be good to send this message also to [email protected]
>>
>> there they decide over live and dead :-)
>>
>> greetz
>>
>> Fernand
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> Le 08/12/10 13:38, Reizinger Zoltán a écrit :
>>>> Hi Fernand,
>>>> It feels to me as I touched in some days ago, and find it, as a
>> known
>>>> issue with cast in MySQL:
>>>> http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=115436
>>>> Zoltan
>>>>
>>> Hmm, this would not be good for me if this is the case because I use
>> a
>>> lot of cast statements with date values in mysql. The reason is
>> simple,
>>> default typing of the values in date strings used to lead to funny
>>> behaviour for me on OOo, which meant that calculations I had in my
>>> queries based on the default types led to incorrect results. I was
>> thus
>>> forced into using CAST to ensure correct handling. If that
>> functionality
>>> has now gone away with the latest dev release, whereas it works in
>> 3.2,
>>> and connector 1.0.0, I see no incentive to move to 3.3.
>>>
>>> Alex
>>>
>>>
>>>
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