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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: friendVU admin <maillist@friendvu.com>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: error: cast the timestam expression
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 10:04:12 -0500
Message-ID: <29815.1106924652@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <41FA527E.9050005@friendvu.com>
References: <41FA527E.9050005@friendvu.com>

friendVU admin <maillist@friendvu.com> writes:
> When I execute this:
> "insert into comments
>     (
>      date_posted
>      )
   
>     (select  date_published
>     from xyz
>      )"

> I get :
> "ERROR:  column "date_posted" is of type timestamp without time zone but 
> expression is of type text
> HINT:  You will need to rewrite or cast the expression."

> Both dates are of type timesamp!

I don't think so.  Let's see the definitions of the comments and xyz
tables (\d in psql will do).

			regards, tom lane



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