Dwight Emmons wrote: > I am upgrading from Postgres 7.2 to 8.1. We have multiple systems > already in place that took advantage of the implicit cast of a null > '' string to an integer of '0'. It is not financially feasible for > us to modify all the instances. Does anyone know of a fix? Well, if you want all your clients to interpret a null value in that column as zero, can't you just update the column to actually contain a zero for those rows? -- Guy Rouillier