At 6:03 PM -0300 5/24/01, Adriano Nagelschmidt Rodrigues wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Supposing I have the following column definition:
>
>level ENUM('bad', 'good', 'great') NOT NULL
>
>I would like to be able to do:
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>SELECT * FROM foo WHERE level >= 'good'
>
>Yet this doesn't work (MySQL v 3.23.38). I have to use
>
>level >= 2 instead.
>
>Shouldn't a numeric context be applied by the server in this case? eg,
Why? 'good' isn't a number, and it's perfectly legal to compare strings
with the >= operator.
>replacing the label 'good' by 2, instead of doing a string sort.
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Paul DuBois, paul@stripped
