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On 27.07.12 10:48, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
>>> When DB client does not support type mapping, you should always use the DB
>>> >> native type, e.g. SQLINTEGER. Ada type must be obtained from that using
>>> >> type conversion.
>>> >>
>>> >> Which should be obvious if we remember that Ada discourages implicit type
>>> >> conversions. Why a DB to Ada one should be implicit?
>> > 
>> > You suppose sqlinterger as property of any db which is wrong.
> I didn't supposed anything, SQLINTEGER was given as an example of a DB data
> type, as provided by the DB client. Conversions to an Ada type from the
> problem domain must be explicit.

For illustration, I am just now debugging this, which is likely delivered
by a database driver (after a system update to some enterprise GNU/Linux):

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