"David E. Wheeler" <david@kineticode.com> writes:
> Pity. Looks like there were only a few I wasn't using, text_char,
> char_text, text_name, and texttoxml. Do I really need to keep all my
> other casts like these in 8.3?
> CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION int8(citext)
> RETURNS int8
> AS 'SELECT int8( $1::text )'
> LANGUAGE SQL IMMUTABLE STRICT;
Yeah, those are all replaced by the CoerceViaIO mechanism.
regards, tom lane