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Michael Glaesemann <grzm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> On May 4, 2007, at 15:34 , Scott Ribe wrote:
>> Are there any other standard types that can't be cast
>> to varchar?

> You already got an answer to the first part of your question, but I  
> thought you might be interested in the second as well.

Note that there's a proposal to allow explicit casts to text from any
type (by invoking the appropriate I/O function behind the scenes) and
I imagine we'd allow casts to varchar as well.  Not sure if this will
happen for 8.3, although it still could.

			regards, tom lane


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