From: | Dennis Gearon <gearond(at)cvc(dot)net> |
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To: | Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu> |
Cc: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Casts to text/varchar |
Date: | 2003-04-18 19:30:22 |
Message-ID: | 3EA0524E.6040201@cvc.net |
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Don't know,
good point,
looking forward to the answer :0(
Greg Stark wrote:
> ERROR: Cannot cast type integer[] to character varying
>
> I would think every datatype should have at least one cast, the cast to a text
> or varchar. Otherwise how is an application to know how to print an arbitrary
> unknown type for human consumption? Where do the existing "{...}"
> representations get created and how does one invoke that in a query?
>
> --
> greg
>
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