Breaking of existing apps with CVS version

There is a minor breakage of existing apps that occurs with current CVS.

In 7.0 doing the following:
   create table tsc(f1 int4 , f2 int4);   insert into tsc values(1,4);   select sum(f1)/sum(f2) from tsc;

would actually result in zero, since it worked with integers throughout. As
a result, I adopted the following strategy:
   select cast(sum(f1) as float8)/sum(f2) from tsc;

which produced the expected results.

Now in 7.1 this breaks with:

ERROR:  Unable to identify an operator '/' for types 'float8' and 'numeric'       You will have to retype this query
usingan explicit cast
 

Is there a reason why it doesn't promote float8 to numeric?




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