[SQL] strange update behavior

2011-04-13 Thread Volkmar Herbst GCI
I did encounter a quite strange behavior during update which I did not understand: The following query updated table parcelle with only one entry for all rows: update cadastre.parcelle set code_unique = t2.code_unique from cadastre.parcelle t1, cadastre.propriete t2 where t1.uoid =

[SQL] Text cast problem

2009-04-03 Thread Volkmar Herbst
Dear all- I encountered the following problem: select * from parcel where number = '255 ' gives me 1 row but select * from parcel where number = '255 ' ::text does give me 0 rows. The cast removes the trailing empty character. Why is that? Unfortunately the statements are