On Sat, 2009-07-25 at 22:54 +0200, Thomas Kellerer wrote:
> Do I understand this correctly that by casting it first to text, I effectively create a new array
> the same way I create one, when I supply a literal like '{1,2,3}'::text[]
Similar, but not quite the same. '{1,2,3}'::text[] is actually
constructing from the cstring type using the type input function.
Cstring is not a normal type, it is what things are before they have a
normal type.
So, my strategy will only work if the array type you're trying to cast
to has a cast from text.
There aren't separate input functions for each array type, so it's hard
to make this work without depending on a cast from text. Perhaps someone
else has a better idea, though.
Regards,
Jeff Davis