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From Tom Lane
Subject Re: numeric type conversions
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Msg-id 2163.1032883871@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to numeric type conversions  (Ruslan A Dautkhanov <rusland@scn.ru>)
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Ruslan A Dautkhanov <rusland@scn.ru> writes:
> I should cast field of 'text' type to the 'numeric' type,
> but PG output error message: "ERROR:  Cannot cast type 'text' to
> 'numeric'".

This has been fixed for 7.3.

> Imho, almost all types should have default convertors from and to
> the 'text' (varchar etc) type..

Probably.

            regards, tom lane

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