Re: Implicit casts to text

Am Montag, 2. April 2007 18:41 schrieb Tom Lane:
> >> The scheme that was in the back of my mind was to do this at the same
> >> time as providing a general facility for casting *every* type to and
> >> from text, by means of their I/O functions if no specialized cast is
> >> provided in pg_cast.

> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-admin/2004-06/msg00390.php
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2004-10/msg00303.php

FWIW, is the attached patch about what you had in mind?  (It probably only 
covers "normal" types at the moment.)

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Peter Eisentraut
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