Re: Returning String as Integer

On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 18:52:19 -0300, Jorge Godoy <jgodoy@gmail.com> wrote:
> Em Sexta 05 Maio 2006 18:37, Kashmira Patel (kupatel) escreveu:
> > Hi all,
> >    I have a table with a column of type 'text'. It mainly contains
> > numbers. Is there any way to select a value from this column and return
> > it as an integer?
> 
> testing=# select '123'::integer;
>  int4 
> ------
>   123
> (1 registro)

Note that that isn't the same thing. The '123' above is not treated as
being of type text. If you actually wanted to test this conversion you
would want to do:
bruno=> select '123'::text::integer;int4
------ 123
(1 row)