Re: Sorry..

Christopher,

> In the bad old days when we couldn't distinguish explicit from implicit
> cast functions, I was wary of adding new cast pathways.  Too many
> implicit casts and you have no type system at all.  But in 7.3 there
> should be no reason to object to an explicit-only cast from numeric
> to text or vice versa.

I'd suggest making the explicit cast of numeric to text be the exact
equivalent of:

SELECT btrim(to_char(numeric, '999,999,999,999.9999999999'))
or similar.

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