Subject: Passing text to functions question.

From: [email-masked] (Scott Kempf)
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 94 10:55:03 CST

Postgres treats uncasted text strings as type text
most of the time.  When they strings are passed to
function, they are type unknown.

What you need to do is cast the string to type text.

retrieve (ex.all) where textne(ex.a,"mar"::text)
					 ^^^^^^

		    Scott