On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 03:16:40PM -0500, Lee Keel wrote: > I am sorry to push this issue, but I have clients waiting on a solution for > this. So, does the lack of response mean that I am going to have to find > another approach? Or can this conversion be done in ppgsql\perl? This question probably doesn't help Lee, but what do the *recv (i.e. float8 float8recv(internal)) functions do? Is this just used to receive things from the client over the wire, or could they be used somehow here. Thanks, Sam ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match