Re: Select record by ID

On Mon, January 29, 2007 7:43 pm, Larry Garfield wrote: > On Monday 29 January 2007 7:19 pm, Richard Lynch wrote: > >> Looks like PostgreSQL caved in to the unwashed masses of MySQL users >> who couldn't handle not putting apostrophes around everything to >> me... >> [sigh] >> >> :-) :-) :-) >> >> Oh well. >> >> I personally would prefer that the DB not accept bogus input like >> this. >> >> Different strokes for different folks. > > Different strokes indeed. Personally I'd much rather one be able to > just > say "quote a literal, dagnabbit" and not worry about whether it was a > string > or an int. I'm sure there's some reason for it deep in the bowels of > SQL > engines as they existed in the early '80s, but for anyone trying to > not > hand-write every frickin' SQL query and automate common tasks it makes > life > considerably more annoying. I can see where you are coming from, but if you don't know what data type you have, and what data type you are using in SQL, you're already screwed. :-) -- Some people have a "gift" link here. Know what I want? I want you to buy a CD from some starving artist. http://cdbaby.com/browse/from/lynch Yeah, I get a buck. So?