I give up.. what don't I understand about casting and
ints and text..
i have a table jobinfo with:
acode text,
jobnumber text default
nextval('public.jobinfo_seq'::text),
jobtitle text
I have about 3000 rows starting with jobnumber = 1000.
SELECT jobnumber, jobtitle FROM jobinfo WHERE
jobnumb
Theodore,
Because jobnumber is declared as text, you are getting "dictionary
order" (lexicographic) ordering on the values. In a dictionary, "abc"
comes after "a", obviously. So indeed "999" will come after
"1000". To get the effect that you want you need to treat jobnumber as
a numb
On Sun, 11 Jul 2004, Theodore Petrosky wrote:
> I give up.. what don't I understand about casting and
> ints and text..
>
> i have a table jobinfo with:
>
> acode text,
> jobnumber text default
> nextval('public.jobinfo_seq'::text),
> jobtitle text
>
> I have about 3000 rows starting with jobnumb
Thank you this pointed me to the problem. I have
non castable entries. I had picked up legacy data (for
the jobnumbers [that's why they were text in the first
place]) and some of the jobnumbers where 1162_01
1162_02 so this would fail.
The error message was giving me the correct message
h
