From: Stephan Szabo <sszabo@megazone23.bigpanda.com>
To: Linn Kubler <lkubler@ecw2.org>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Character translation?
Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2002 08:37:37 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <20020909083627.P13345-100000@megazone23.bigpanda.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <al8l13$48u$1@news.hub.org>
On Thu, 5 Sep 2002, Linn Kubler wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a view like this:
> create view myview as
> select recid, title, firstname || chr(32) || lastname as expert, rank
> from mytable;
>
> When I use this view via odbc on a Windows 2000 system using Visual FoxPro
> the expert field shows up as a memo field. This is analogous to the text
> field in PSQL.
>
> What I'd like to do is have the expert column come through as a varchar type
> so that it shows up as a text field in VFP. Any suggestions?
>
> I was looking at the functions and didn't see anything that would do the
> trick for me but I could have just missed something. I also saw a reference
> to the cast() function but couldn't find any usage info on it in the online
> docs.
cast() isn't a function precisely speaking. It works as
CAST(expr as datatype).
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