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