"Anton Melser" <melser(dot)anton(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> ... But it is COMPLETELY out of the
> question to redo the db abstraction layer, and without these implicit
> casts that is what will be needed. Is there REALLY no way to reenable
> it?
http://people.planetpostgresql.org/peter/index.php?/archives/18-Readding-implicit-casts-in-PostgreSQL-8.3.html
regards, tom lane