Matt A. wrote:
Anyone know how I could alter the cast of the nullif()
function directly to return INT?

We use NULLIF() for adding [1|0|null] according to the
evalution of nullif('x','') into integer columns.
Where x is an integer and sometimes a empty string,
which if it's an empty string (x='') then we add NULL
cause NULLIF says if '' == '' then return NULL

Just add a wrapper function:

CREATE FUNCTION nullif_always_int(text) RETURNS integer AS '
        SELECT nullif($1,'''')::int;
' LANGUAGE SQL;

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  Richard Huxton
  Archonet Ltd

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