Re: [HACKERS] ERROR: failed to find conversion function from "unknown" to text

On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 6:31 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:

> "Gurjeet Singh" <singh(dot)gurjeet(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> > create cast (unknown as text) with function unknown2text( unknown ) as
> > implicit;
>
> This is a horrendously bad idea; it will bite your *ss sooner or later,
> probably sooner.
>
> regards, tom lane
>

I guessed so, but couldn't figure out exactly how! That's why I have
suggested this as a temp solution until we confirmed this with someone more
knowledgeable.

Can you please let us know how this would be problematic? And can you
suggest a better solution?

Thanks and best regards,
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