> I agree with the premise - SQL gets it right, but perhaps only in PostgreSQL? I don't agree with the premise. Both MySQL[1] and MS SQL Server [2] do an impli

> I agree with the premise - SQL gets it right, but perhaps only in PostgreSQL? I don't agree with the premise. Both MySQL[1] and MS SQL Server [2] do an implicit cast and then compare them as numbers. I don't know whether this is ANSI standard behavior though. [1] https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/type-conversion.html https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/type-conversion.html [2] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/t-sql/data-types/data-type-conversion-database-engine?view=sql-server-ver15 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/t-sql/data-types/data-t...