Casting with "::" is a Postgres convenience I use every day. But really it's all about the features. Every time someone brings up MySQL, I look at the followin

Casting with "::" is a Postgres convenience I use every day. But really it's all about the features. Every time someone brings up MySQL, I look at the following link and see a sea of red. https://www.sql-workbench.eu/dbms_comparison.html https://www.sql-workbench.eu/dbms_comparison.html