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From: Gurjeet Singh <[email protected]>
To: Pavel Stehule <[email protected]>
Cc: PGSQL General <[email protected]>
Cc: PGSQL Hackers <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] ERROR: failed to find conversion function from "unknown" to text
Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 12:07:51 +0530
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
References: <[email protected]>
	<[email protected]>

As I mentioned, we cannot change the query, so adding casts to the query is
not an option. I was looking for something external to the query, like a
CREATE CAST command that'd resolve the issue.

Best regards,

On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 12:00 PM, Pavel Stehule <[email protected]>wrote:

> Hello
>
> 2009/1/6 Gurjeet Singh <[email protected]>:
> > Q1: select '' union all select ''
> > Q2: select '' union all select * from (select '' ) as s
> >
> > version: PostgreSQL 8.3.1, compiled by Visual C++ build 1400
> >
> > Hi All,
> >
> >     Q1 works just fine, but Q2 fails with:
> >
> > ERROR:  failed to find conversion function from "unknown" to text
> >
> >     Q2 is a generalization of a huge query we are facing, which we cannot
> > modify. I don't think this is a 'removed-casts' problem generally faced
> in
> > 8.3, but I may be wrong. Will adding some cast resolve this?
>
> yes
>
> postgres=#  select '' union all select * from (select ''::text ) as s;
>  ?column?
> ----------
>
>
> (2 rows)
>
> regards
> Pavel Stehule
>
> >
> > Best regards,
> > --
> > gurjeet[.singh]@EnterpriseDB.com
> > singh.gurjeet@{ gmail | hotmail | indiatimes | yahoo }.com
> >
> > EnterpriseDB      http://www.enterprisedb.com
> >
> > Mail sent from my BlackLaptop device
> >
>



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