Re: [SQL] Implicit/Explicit casting of the unknown type

2001-04-03 Thread Josh Berkus
Steve, Hmmm ... I'm using PostgreSQL for quite a few contortions of data, and I can't say that I've encountered anything quite like the problems you're having. It may be that you actually have a compile problem with Postgres rather than a SQL problem.

Re: [SQL] Implicit/Explicit casting of the unknown type

2001-04-03 Thread Stephen Jackson
Hi, Apologies for re-posting - this problem is giving me a bit of a headache. Basically, my problem is that in a number of (to me surprising) contexts an explicit cast from a string literal to some character data type is required by PostgreSQL, where such casts are not required by other rdbms w

[SQL] Implicit/Explicit casting of the unknown type

2001-03-26 Thread Stephen Jackson
Hi, I am new to this list. I have browsed the list archives and tried a search, but haven't found anything about my problem. I am porting several applications to PostgreSQL and have come across a number of instances where a string literal does not work without an explicit cast to some character