El Jue 15 Abr 2004 07:25, Dan Field escribió: > I've stumbled across a query I don't quite understand the error message > for. > > This query is pulled from a working MySQL setup: > > SELECT > DEWEY_ID, DEWEY_HUNDREDS, DEWEY_TENS, DEWEY_ONES, DEWEY_POINT_ONES, > DEWEY_POINT_TENS, > DEWEY_POINT_HUNDREDS, DEWEY_POINT_THOUSANDS, DEWEY_TYPE, DEWEY_LANG, > DEWEY_SUBJECT FROM lu_dewey > WHERE > (DEWEY_HUNDREDS = 9) AND > (DEWEY_TENS >= 0) AND > (DEWEY_TENS <= 9) AND > (DEWEY_ONES = 0 || DEWEY_ONES = NULL) AND > (DEWEY_POINT_ONES = 0 || DEWEY_POINT_ONES = NULL) AND > (DEWEY_POINT_TENS = 0 || DEWEY_POINT_TENS = NULL) AND > (DEWEY_POINT_HUNDREDS = 0 || DEWEY_POINT_HUNDREDS = NULL) AND > (DEWEY_POINT_THOUSANDS = 0 || DEWEY_POINT_THOUSANDS = NULL) AND > (DEWEY_TYPE = 't') AND > (DEWEY_LANG = 'en') > ORDER BY DEWEY_TENS > > > However I'm getting the following error: > > ERROR: Unable to identify an operator '=' for types 'character' and > 'boolean' You will have to retype this query using an explicit cast.
1) Change the "= NULL" to "IS NULL" which is how it's defined in the SQL standards. 2) What data type does DEWEY_TYPE have? -- 08:28:01 up 37 days, 12:55, 2 users, load average: 0.72, 0.77, 0.90 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Martín Marqués | select 'mmarques' || '@' || 'unl.edu.ar' Centro de Telematica | DBA, Programador, Administrador Universidad Nacional del Litoral ----------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]