Cyan comments on The Joys of Conjugate Priors - Less Wrong Discussion
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Oh, for sure it is. But that only gives it a conditionally conjugate prior, not a fully (i.e., marginally) conjugate prior. That's great for Gibbs sampling, but not for pen-and-paper computations.
In the three years since I wrote the grandparent, I've found a nice mixture representation for any unimodal symmetric distribution:
I don't think it would be too hard to convert this width-weighted-mixture-of-uniforms representation to a precision-weighted-mixture-of-normals representation.