Re: How to add explicit types so I can use OVERLAPS?

On Fri 01 Aug 2008 05:26:03 PM EDT, Federico Di Gregorio wrote:
> I understand but here we have a problem: psycopg already worked out of
> the box. Now we have "errors" in queries that with PostgreSQL 8.2 where
> ok. psycopg is not supposed to send to the backend "unknown" values. It
> is supposed to send values of the right type. Untill now using
> PostgreSQL intrinsic ability to convert a quoted string to the right
> type worked. If it does not work anymore it should be fixed.
>
> Anyway, I'll make sure to fix this maintaining backward compatibility. I
> won't just stick in typecasts from the next release.

I'm not familiar with the psycopg code, but I'm happy to help if I can.
If you tell me where to look and what to do, I can start.

How will you maintain backward compatibility?  Are you going to do a
test for the postgresql database version, and if it is 8.3 or greater,
you'll add the "TIMESTAMP" text?

Matt