Because that's the name of the sequence, not the value coming out of the sequence.
3/4/2003 10:54:34 PM, John Smith <john_smith_45678(at)yahoo(dot)com> wrote:
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> Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2003 22:54:34 -0800 (PST)
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> From: John Smith <john_smith_45678(at)yahoo(dot)com>
> Subject:[GENERAL] nextval::text
> To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
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> I was just wondering why in the generated schema nextval is cast to text
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> John
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> CREATE TABLE x (
> id integer DEFAULT nextval('"x_id_seq"'::text) NOT NULL,
> name character varying(30) NOT NULL
> );
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