On Fri, 24 Jul 1998, Ferruccio Zamuner wrote:
> CREATE TABLE foo (
> x int2
> );
>
> CREATE TABLE bar (
> y foo,
> z int
> );
>
> I read on some Postgres mailing digest that I had to put the OID of instance
> of foo into y field of bar.
>
> So I tried.
>
> The problem is that when I submit the following query:
>
> SELECT foo.x, bar.z WHERE foo.oid=bar.y;
>
> trying to catch int fields either from bar and from its instance of foo,
> Postgres replies that bar.y (of type foo) and foo.oid (of type oid) cannot be
> compared.
> I've also tried to cast them in many ways but the answer never changes!
You could declare bar.y to be of type oid instead of type foo.
