Re: The Tomb of the Unknown Type? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Christopher Browne
Subject Re: The Tomb of the Unknown Type?
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In response to Re: feature request: \qf datatype  ("Alex J. Avriette" <alex@posixnap.net>)
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tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us (Tom Lane) wrote:
> The cure is to cast the literal to some specific type when you
> do the CREATE.

I figured that was the case, and pointed that cure back to the
developer.

What I was hoping to hear was some way of coercing the data into a
more usable type after the fact.  The query is actually generating a
TEMP table, so the cast is certainly the right answer.
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