Tom> As you point out, the ISO spec doesn't actually say that that Tom> string literal has to be the external textual representation Tom> ... but it's surely pretty bizarre that it's not a good Tom> candidate to be the textual representation.
Yes, I'm convicned. Particularly after considering casts of strings to intervals... -roy ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match