From: Luke Pascoe <luke.p@kmg.co.nz>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: CAST from VARCHAR to INT
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 15:56:19 +1300
Message-ID: <01df01c2c354$2bac5a60$3200000a@K2> (raw)
(Postgres 7.2.1)
I screwed up when I was designing a table a while back and made a column a
VARCHAR that referenced (and should have been) an INT.
Now I'm trying to correct my mistake, I've created a new table and I'm
trying to INSERT INTO...SELECT the data into it, but it's complaining that
it can't stick a VARCHAR into an INT. All the values in the column are valid
integers (the foreign key sees to that) but even a CAST won't do it.
How can I force it to copy/change the values?
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Luke Pascoe
Senior Developer / Systems administrator
KMG (NZ) Limited. http://www.kmg.co.nz
Mobile: (021) 303019
Email: luke.p@kmg.co.nz
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