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* convert_numeric_to_scalar: unsupported type 354210
@ 2003-06-23 08:10 AgentM <agentm@cmu.edu>
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From: AgentM @ 2003-06-23 08:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: pgsql-sql
PostgreSQL 7.3.2:
Here is a piece of a table definition:
CREATE TABLE data
(
id SERIAL PRIMARY KEY,
description TEXT,
ra physreal,
dec physreal,
z physreal,
...);
physreal is the domain of numeric(20,14).
Then I created an index across ra,dec, and z (one index). I really
haven't done anything else to the database. The table has ~290000 rows
and I indexed after inserting the data. Strangely, I can only make
weird selects using these fields. Look:
select dec from data limit 5;
dec
---------------
-1.2378252250
-1.2366515502
-1.2501212847
-1.0732052187
-1.1653486998
(5 rows)
select id from data where dec < 191.456;
id
----
1
2
...this works.
select id from data where dec < 2.0;
ERROR: convert_numeric_to_scalar: unsupported type 354210
This doesn't. The problem persists even when I create individual
indices for each column. It seems this only occurs when I use a number
that is "close" to a value in the column. What's going on and what does
the error mean? Thanks.
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AgentM
agentm@cmu.edu
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* Re: convert_numeric_to_scalar: unsupported type 354210
@ 2003-06-23 14:00 Rod Taylor <rbt@rbt.ca>
parent: AgentM <agentm@cmu.edu>
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From: Rod Taylor @ 2003-06-23 14:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: AgentM <agentm@cmu.edu>; +Cc: pgsql-sql
> select id from data where dec < 2.0;
> ERROR: convert_numeric_to_scalar: unsupported type 354210
Domains exposed (and introduced) a number of interesting issues in
regards to type switching for these things.
Cast the 2.0 value to the domain:
CAST(2.0 AS physreal)
or quote it and let the system figure it out:
dec < '2.0'
Simply put, without quotes the parser assumes that 2.0 is a numeric,
which doesn't have a direct < operator for use with the domain.
Another alternative would be to create a new < operator, but thats more
work than it's worth.
This has been fixed for 7.4 (the system implicitly coerces the domain to
numeric for the index comparison).
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* Re: convert_numeric_to_scalar: unsupported type 354210
@ 2003-06-23 14:28 Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
parent: AgentM <agentm@cmu.edu>
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From: Tom Lane @ 2003-06-23 14:28 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: AgentM <agentm@cmu.edu>; +Cc: pgsql-sql
AgentM <agentm@cmu.edu> writes:
> PostgreSQL 7.3.2:
> physreal is the domain of numeric(20,14).
> ERROR: convert_numeric_to_scalar: unsupported type 354210
This is fixed in 7.3.3.
regards, tom lane
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