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To: Gary Stainburn <gary.stainburn@ringways.co.uk>
cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: odd error updating - varchar 
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Comments: In-reply-to Gary Stainburn <gary.stainburn@ringways.co.uk>
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Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 12:17:42 -0500
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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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Gary Stainburn <gary.stainburn@ringways.co.uk> writes:
> goole=# update requests set r_chassis = 'GAJD7P26209' where r_id = 18560;
> ERROR:  attribute 7 has wrong type
> DETAIL:  Table has type character varying, but query expects character 
> varying.

This looks like a bug that was fixed awhile ago.

			regards, tom lane