On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 02:01:07PM -0500, Kevin Grittner wrote: > > "char" is no different other than, by default, it happens to look a > > lot like any value of text type. > > So much so that it has the same name as a text type (wrapped in > quotes) and behaves a lot like one:
You're getting bitten by implicit casts. Try creating a view of any of your examples and seeing what the resulting types are, or in 8.4 an EXPLAIN VERBOSE seems to show how it's typed the expression. -- Sam http://samason.me.uk/ -- Sent via pgsql-bugs mailing list (pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-bugs
