Re: sequences what does ::text mean ? - Mailing list pgsql-novice

From Josh Jore
Subject Re: sequences what does ::text mean ?
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In response to Re: sequences what does ::text mean ?  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Ah so. Thanks for the clarification.

Joshua b. Jore ; http://www.greentechnologist.org

On Wed, 3 Jul 2002, Tom Lane wrote:

> Actually, either form will produce the exact same run-time behavior:
> a literal constant of type TEXT is fed to the function nextval(text),
> which returns an int4 (or an int8 on 7.2 and later).
>             regards, tom lane




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