You can make an intermediate step through text
<colume>::text::int
However, it'll fail if there are any values it cannot
turn into an integer (with an elog) which may not
be what you want.
Stephan Szabo
sszabo@bigpanda.com
On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, Hoosain Madhi wrote:
> Is it possible to type cast from varchar to int? Postgres backend complains
> when I try to do this.