Hello Alvaro, Hello Tom, thank you very much for your quick and helpful replies. > You can always cast pretty much anything to anything via a variable > assignment in plpgsql... <thud> I only tried it in SQL. So the function works just fine after the removal of the text cast on 8.2 as well. For SQL I'll stick with "textin(regprocedureout(p.oid::regprocedure))". Peter -- Jetzt kostenlos herunterladen: Internet Explorer 8 und Mozilla Firefox 3 - sicherer, schneller und einfacher! http://portal.gmx.net/de/go/atbrowser -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin