Outstanding.... thanks all....
Tom Lane wrote:
Jeff Amiel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
If postgres knows the field is an int8, why do I have to cast it in my query?
As of 8.0 you won't have to anymore.
You don't really want to know why it took us six years to find a workable solution... suffice it to say that it was harder than you might think, because of Postgres' extensible approach to datatypes.
regards, tom lane
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