Outstanding....
thanks all....
Tom Lane wrote:
>Jeff Amiel <jamiel@istreamimaging.com> writes:
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>>If postgres knows the field is an int8, why do I have to cast it in my query?
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>As of 8.0 you won't have to anymore.
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>You don't really want to know why it took us six years to find a
>workable solution... suffice it to say that it was harder than you
>might think, because of Postgres' extensible approach to datatypes.
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> regards, tom lane
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