Hello, I plan to replace some btree indexes through btree_gin on some timed tables(e.g. monthly tables) For this, I first need to change the data type from character(n) to varchar, but I can't afford it on historical tables as this would be too time consuming, so only new tables should get the varchar type. Now I have generated queries that include cast information in order to ensure that the indexes get used. e.g.: WHERE month1.foo = cast('XY' as character(2)) with mixed type, this should become something like: SELECT ... FROM month1 WHERE month1.foo = cast('XY' as character(2)) UNION ALL SELECT... FROM month2 WHERE month2.foo = cast('XY' as varchar) which is quite complicated to resolve in our "query builder framework" There seems to be no way to have dynamic casting, something like: WHERE month2.foo = cast('XY' as 'month2.foo'::regtype) Is there a way for it ? regards, Marc Mamin -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general