Hi, I have a strange issue that is mostly likely me not understanding something. I always thought that an insert statement would accept any select statement. I'm guessing I am wrong.
I have created a temporary table ("tempclass") that is exact match to an existing table ('esclass'). When I attempt to do the following insert into tempclass Select cl.pkid, cl.depart, cl.sessionid, cl.instrid, cl.classseq,(select facility from esloc where esloc.pkid = cl.locationid) as facility, cl.schedule from esclass cl where cl.pkid in (14507,14508) I get the following error: ERROR: column "schedule" is of type date but expression is of type character varying LINE 1: ... cl.depart, cl.sessionid, cl.instrid, cl.classseq,(select fa... ^ HINT: You will need to rewrite or cast the expression. The error makes no sense to me. But most important if I just run the select statement it works perfectly. Like I said the table "tempclass" (a temporary) is a dup of table "esclass" so none of it makes sense. Of course I did say I'm missing something. So why isn't the select statement working with the insert? Johnf -- Sent via pgsql-sql mailing list (pgsql-sql@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-sql