On 28/06/12 11:21, Daniele Varrazzo wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 7:30 AM, Federico Di Gregorio <fog@dndg.it> wrote:
>> > On 28/06/12 01:19, Adrian Klaver wrote:
>>> >> Note the addition of the casts. This is causing problems when using the
>>> >> hstore adapter as hstore expects a plain string. Is there a way to get
>>> >> around this?
>> >
>> > The cast were introduced because PostgreSQL 9.x is much strictier about
>> > function signatures than the 8.x series. Sometimes functions taking
>> > parameters were not found because of the implicit text->other type cast.
> Hstore is a mapping from strings to strings, not a generic dictionary
> mapping. There's never been a promise to adapt generic python
> dictionary (mapping hashable -> anything) into it. Even if you ram a
> python date into a postgres hstore, reading it back you will get a
> string.
Doh! I wasn't aware that hstore used text only (never needed it myself).
federico
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