Github user fmcquillan99 commented on the issue:
https://github.com/apache/madlib/pull/234
was just testing 1.13 on postgres 9.6 and found this error
```
DROP TABLE IF EXISTS abalone_out, abalone_out_dictionary;
SELECT madlib.encode_categorical_variables (
'abalone', -- Source table
'abalone_out', -- Output table
'height>.10' -- Categorical columns
);
```
produces
```
Done.
(psycopg2.ProgrammingError) spiexceptions.SyntaxError: syntax error at or
near "="
LINE 5: (CASE WHEN (height>.10 = 'False') THEN 1...
^
QUERY:
CREATE TABLE abalone_out AS (
SELECT
id, sex, length, diameter, height, rings,
(CASE WHEN (height>.10 = 'False') THEN 1 ELSE 0
END)::INTEGER AS "height>.10_False",(CASE WHEN (height>.10 = 'True') THEN 1
ELSE 0 END)::INTEGER AS "height>.10_True"
FROM
abalone
)
CONTEXT: Traceback (most recent call last):
PL/Python function "encode_categorical_variables", line 23, in <module>
return encode_categorical.encode_categorical_variables(**globals())
PL/Python function "encode_categorical_variables", line 598, in
encode_categorical_variables
PL/Python function "encode_categorical_variables", line 147, in
build_output_table
PL/Python function "encode_categorical_variables"
[SQL: "SELECT madlib.encode_categorical_variables (\n 'abalone',
-- Source table\n 'abalone_out', -- Output
table\n 'height>.10' -- Categorical columns\n );"]
```
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