On 12/14/11 7:03 PM, Ray Stell wrote:
> I've been using a network management tool for a number of years from
> cisco to manage storage networking (fibre channel). The thing is
> called Fabric Manager and I was thrilled that they supported pg for the
> backend when I first installed. However, their latest and greatest is
> frozen to pg 8.2. Sigh. I think they tripped over the datatypes not being
> automatically cast to TEXT. That's what spewed anyway when I tried it
> to go around them.
>
> Maybe there is porting opportunity for someone since they seem to have
> lost their way:
> http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/switches/datacenter/mds9000/sw/5_0/release/notes/fm/fm_rel_notes_507.html
>
If you're looking for a workaround: You can probably get this product to
work with >= 8.3 by re-enabling the old casting behavior:
<http://petereisentraut.blogspot.com/2008/03/readding-implicit-casts-in-postgresql.html>
Good luck
Christian
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Christian Ramseyer
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