On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 9:22 AM, Marti Raudsepp <marti@juffo.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 18:19, Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Have you tried casting to varchar(1000) or something like that?
>
> MySQL's CAST() doesn't accept varchar or varchar(N). It accepts char,
> which behaves like varchar.
It's a shame you can't file a mysql bug report and get a patch in a
reasonable amount of time like you can with pgsql*.
(* I've filed two bug reports and gotten patches in < 24 hours both
times with pgsql.)