On Sun, 8 Apr 2001, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Hans-Jürgen Schönig writes:
>
> > Is there any possibility to cast numeric to text in Postgres 7.0.3?
> >
> > shop=# select cast(price as text) from products;
> > ERROR: Cannot cast type 'numeric' to 'text'
>
> Use the to_char() function.
When would one want to use cast()? What is the difference between cast
and :: ? After a quick look in the documentation I couldn't find
anything..
-Cedar