On 05/14/2014 06:11 AM, Barry Bell wrote:
> Use the cast work fine but we are using the initcap function in a lot of places
> And do not want to cast to every place.
> (Plus we use a lot of other functions that may have the same issue).
>
> You said the initcap function return "text",
> Is this a "short" text like a varchar
> Or a long text like a clob,memo etc?
This is text vs varchar(n) or char(n). I show the 'n' because in
Postgres a varchar without a length is equivalent to text. See here for
all the details:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/interactive/datatype-character.html
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