Casts to text/varchar - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Greg Stark
Subject Casts to text/varchar
Date
Msg-id 87istbbqo1.fsf@stark.dyndns.tv
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Responses Re: Casts to text/varchar
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ERROR:  Cannot cast type integer[] to character varying

I would think every datatype should have at least one cast, the cast to a text
or varchar. Otherwise how is an application to know how to print an arbitrary
unknown type for human consumption? Where do the existing "{...}"
representations get created and how does one invoke that in a query?

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greg

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