> > Now I will proceed with the quick and dirty CAST(id AS VARCHAR). >
There's nothing wrong with doing the cast - I wouldn't consider it "quick and dirty." > Jonathan: I read around implicit casting was default in pg version < 8.3. > I was mostly being snarky because people shouldn't expect Postgres to implement MySQL's broken implementation. :) But you can explicitly create implicit casts between two types. But I would not recommend this - I think the explicit cast in your query is more clear as to how you're running the query. http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/sql-createcast.html -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Heroku" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/heroku?hl=en.
