From: Steve Crawford <scrawford@pinpointresearch.com>
To: Wei Weng <wweng@kencast.com>
To: 'pgsql-sql@postgresql.org' <pgsql-sql@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Cast NULL into Timestamp?
Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 16:10:16 -0800
Message-ID: <200412101610.16959.scrawford@pinpointresearch.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <41B9F808.2040909@kencast.com>
References: <41B9F808.2040909@kencast.com>
On Friday 10 December 2004 11:24 am, Wei Weng wrote:
> I have a table
>
> create table temp
> (
> tempdate timestamp,
> tempname varchar(10)
> );
>
> And I tried to insert the following:
>
> insert into table temp (tempname, tempdate)
> select distinct 'tempname', null from some_other_relevant_table;
>
> And I got an error that says "column "tempdate" is of type
> timestamp ... but expression is of type text... will need to
> rewrite or cast the expression".
>
> I really need the distinct. Is there anyway to cast this NULL into
> a timestamp or any other workarounds?
How about:
insert into table temp (tempname)
select distinct 'tempname' from some_other_relevant_table;
Unless there's something you have left out in describing your setup
this will leave the tempdate column null.
Cheers,
Steve
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