Re: [SQL] Variable-length Types

[Itai Zukerman]

> > 3. What sort of trouble am I going to get into trying to pull data from
> > a custom type into an external interface (i.e. PHP4)?  
> 
> Good question --- the interface code might or might not have a sensible
> default behavior for types it doesn't recognize.

Why not explicitly convert to text?  (I assume the output function for
that type will be used in the conversion...?).

SELECT phone_num::text FROM tab

-itai