On Sat, 23 Sep 2000, Jarmo Paavilainen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I suspect that OID are reused, but how fast are they reused?
IIRC, they are not reused at all.
> And does PostgreSQL support the STRING and AS command?
What does STRING do? I don't see a function with that name, but
it's possible we have it with a different name.
If it's just cast value to a string, then use text(field) or
field::text.