Ted,
> responce: can not cast type 'date' to 'text'
>
> Did i miss-read this section. I thought I could cast the date to text. has anyone seen
> this or am I missreading the docs?
'fraid so. You cannot cast Date as Text, because (presumably) the DB
engine doesn't know how you want to format the date. Instead, use the
to_char builtin function, as defined in the docs:
http://www.postgresql.org/users-lounge/docs/7.0/postgres/functions2976.htm
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