I'm dealing with a system where string values is queried but not necessary type-cast. E.g. SELECT case when some_value=1 then 'some string' else 'another string' end FROM some_table; This will return a column cast as type TEXT;
Is there some configuration option (or hack?) available which will return above as VARCHAR ?
I'm using 3rd party software where a VARCHAR value displays much better than TEXT. I know best practice will be to type-cast , but I'm hoping for a quick-fix here :)