title: How to fetch TEXT column value from postgresql
body: <p>I have a the following simple table in postgreSQL:</p>
  
  <pre><code>CREATE TABLE data ( id bigint NOT NULL, text_column text, );
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The values of the text_column , as I see them in the phpPgAdmin web site, are numbers (long).
  As I read, postgreSQL keeps a pointer to the actual data.
  How can I fetch the actual string value of the text_column?
  Doing: </p>
  
  <pre><code>select text_column from data 
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>returns numbers...</p>
  
  <p>Thanks</p>