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In Postgres, how do I cast character varying to an enum type?

I have a Postgres 8.4 table with columns that are of type "character varying", but I want to convert them to an enum type. When trying to alter the table ALTER TABLE logs ALTER COLUMN interface_type ...
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changing float->numeric casts from assignment to implicit, dangerous?

In porting an application to PostgreSQL (9.1), one odd SQL incompatibility I've discovered concerns the round() function, specifically the version that takes a second argument indicating the rounding ...