| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Michael Glaesemann <grzm(at)seespotcode(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Scott Ribe <scott_ribe(at)killerbytes(dot)com>, Postgresql General <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Casting to varchar |
| Date: | 2007-05-04 21:49:13 |
| Message-ID: | 11124.1178315353@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Michael Glaesemann <grzm(at)seespotcode(dot)net> writes:
> On May 4, 2007, at 15:34 , Scott Ribe wrote:
>> Are there any other standard types that can't be cast
>> to varchar?
> You already got an answer to the first part of your question, but I
> thought you might be interested in the second as well.
Note that there's a proposal to allow explicit casts to text from any
type (by invoking the appropriate I/O function behind the scenes) and
I imagine we'd allow casts to varchar as well. Not sure if this will
happen for 8.3, although it still could.
regards, tom lane
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