Ignore previous half-completed email. How do you get this to work in 7.2.1?
I'm creating a view of a table, but I'm trying to do something like this: create table t ( id integer not null, amount numeric(7,2) ); create view v as select id as v_id, 'paid amount: ' || amount as v_comment from t ; You get this: ERROR: Unable to identify an operator '||' for types 'unknown' and 'numeric' You will have to retype this query using an explicit cast None of these work: CAST(amount AS text) CAST(amount AS varchar) CAST(amount AS char) and this: CAST(amount AS real) works, but if amount is 12.00, then you just get '12' - which is not cool. Any ideas? Chris ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]