"Michael Richards" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>> Shouldn't all casts be able to handle the case where it is NULL?
>>
>> Yup, it's a bug. It's fixed in current sources.
> Is there a patch available that I can apply to the 7.0.2 source to
> fix the problem? Or is there going to be a 7.0.3 that I should wait
> for?
Just look for the place where the error is being spit out (somewhere in
backend/utils/adt/) and change the "elog(ERROR, ...)" call into
"return NULL". Should work, but I haven't tried it in 7.0.
regards, tom lane
