Re: sequences what does ::text mean ?

Ah so. Thanks for the clarification.

Joshua b. Jore ; http://www.greentechnologist.org

On Wed, 3 Jul 2002, Tom Lane wrote:

> Actually, either form will produce the exact same run-time behavior:
> a literal constant of type TEXT is fed to the function nextval(text),
> which returns an int4 (or an int8 on 7.2 and later).
>             regards, tom lane