[Bioperl-l] postgres 8.3 will not cast text to integer any longer

[Erik]

On Fri, March 21, 2008 01:34, Hilmar Lapp wrote:
>
> So I think at this point with this change I have to
> declare Bioperl-
> db officially incompatible with PostgreSQL 8.3+ until
> we've found a
> solution to this, which is too bad because it seems 8.3
> has some
> really nice performance features added.

Pg 8.3 is indeed very noticably faster, and it has other
excellent new features like full text indexing. (This also
makes that downgrading is not really an option)


> Which DBD::Pg version is it that you are using?

DBD::Pg 2.3.0


Thanks,

Erik Rijkers