Re: The Tomb of the Unknown Type?

From: Christopher Browne <cbbrowne(at)acm(dot)org>
To: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: The Tomb of the Unknown Type?
Date: 2004-04-09 12:07:31
Message-ID: m3fzbdfj7g.fsf@wolfe.cbbrowne.com
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tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us (Tom Lane) wrote:
> The cure is to cast the literal to some specific type when you
> do the CREATE.

I figured that was the case, and pointed that cure back to the
developer.

What I was hoping to hear was some way of coercing the data into a
more usable type after the fact. The query is actually generating a
TEMP table, so the cast is certainly the right answer.
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