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From: Alvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
To: Chamath Sajeewa <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Pgsql error in coalesce
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2020 13:42:07 -0400
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACpofejQ12OBATx9Mi1YB24bj4Y4Ey6gq0fmncPp-b3hAyRtyQ@mail.gmail.com>

On 2020-Jul-27, Chamath Sajeewa wrote:

> Hi,
> There is table with int4 column. When select query is executed as "select
> coalesce(column_name, 255), query is failing with below error.
> "COALESCE types text and integer cannot be mached".

I'd bet you're not querying the table you think you're querying ...
What does "\d table" show?  Also, please show the complete query, and
SHOW search_path .

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Álvaro Herrera                https://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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