Tom Lane t...@sss.pgh.pa.us wrote:
Sorry about that --- I had confused this case with that of a bare
NULL literal, which Postgres treats the same as an unadorned
string literal for type determination purposes. You're right that
the spec treats them differently. This is feasible for the
Wagner, Kurt kurt.wagnerext...@leoni.com wrote:
when writing a character constant elsewhere
then at first it is interpreted as character constant - right?
then it is casted to the desired type
No. It was confusing for me, too; but the PostgreSQL behavior is to
treat what the standard
Kevin Grittner kevin.gritt...@wicourts.gov wrote:
There is an understandable tendency of those who work deep in the
guts of the PostgreSQL software, making all this custom type code
work,
I mangled that sentence worse than usual. The tendency is to see
the PostgreSQL behavior as natural
The following bug has been logged online:
Bug reference: 5225
Logged by: Kurt wagner
Email address: kurt.wagnerext...@leoni.com
PostgreSQL version: 8.41
Operating system: HP-UX
Description:create table: cast necessary for constant??
Details:
During migration from
Kurt wagner kurt.wagnerext...@leoni.com writes:
During migration from Informix to Postgres I came across following issue:
create temp table temp1 as
SELECT firmnr,
werknr,
'I' as invper,
invnum
from ;
You really ought to cast the 'I' to some
On 3/12/2009 12:35 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
Kurt wagnerkurt.wagnerext...@leoni.com writes:
During migration from Informix to Postgres I came across following issue:
create temp table temp1 as
SELECT firmnr,
werknr,
'I' as invper,
invnum
from ;
You
Craig Ringer cr...@postnewspapers.com.au wrote:
On 3/12/2009 12:35 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
You really ought to cast the 'I' to some specific type.
It's usually neatest to do this by just explicitly identifying
the intended type in the first place, eg:
SELECT firmnr,
Kevin Grittner kevin.gritt...@wicourts.gov writes:
Quoting from section 5.3 of WG3:HBA-003 H2-2003-305 August, 2003
(ISO-ANSI Working Draft) Foundation (SQL/Foundation):
| 13) The declared type of a character string literal is
| fixed-length character string.
Treating an otherwise
, Kurt; pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [BUGS] BUG #5225: create table: cast necessary for
constant??
Kevin Grittner kevin.gritt...@wicourts.gov writes:
Quoting from section 5.3 of WG3:HBA-003 H2-2003-305 August, 2003
(ISO-ANSI Working Draft) Foundation (SQL/Foundation):
| 13
