Re: nextval::text

Because that's the name of the sequence, not the value coming out of the sequence.

3/4/2003 10:54:34 PM, John Smith <john_smith_45678@yahoo.com> wrote:

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>  Date:   Tue, 4 Mar 2003 22:54:34 -0800 (PST)
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>  From:   John Smith <john_smith_45678@yahoo.com>
>  Subject:[GENERAL] nextval::text
>  To:     pgsql-general@postgresql.org
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>  I was just wondering why in the generated schema nextval is cast to text
>  rather than int?
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>  John
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>  CREATE TABLE x (
>      id integer DEFAULT nextval('"x_id_seq"'::text) NOT NULL,
>      name character varying(30) NOT NULL
>  );
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