Bug in index creation

Below is a bug report describing a problem I encountered trying to create
primary
keys / indices on some basic tables using Postgres 6.5.2.

Thanks,
Tim Newell

Tim Newell
xwave solutions
timothynewell@xwavesolutions.com
(902) 481-4572

-----Original Message-----
From: Tim Newell <newell@sol02.atl.sofkin.ca>
To: newell@atl.sofkin.ca <newell@atl.sofkin.ca>
Date: Monday, September 27, 1999 12:10 PM


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>Your name : Tim Newell
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>System Configuration
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>  Operating System (example: Linux 2.0.26 ELF) : Linux 2.0.35 ELF
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>  PostgreSQL version (example: PostgreSQL-6.5.2):   PostgreSQL-6.5.2
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>Please enter a FULL description of your problem:
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>Creation of indices in general, and specifically primary keys during
>table creation, fails with the error:
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>ERROR:  Can't find a default operator class for type 1700.
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>Platform is Red Hat Linux 5.1 running kernel 2.0.35, Intel Pentium.
>Downloaded Postgres 6.5.2 tarball, configured using:
>./configure --with-tcl --with-perl --with-odbc
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>Built and installed. Regression tests were fine (geometry tests
>generated a fail, but I believe that is just a precision / rounding
>error). Tried running our table create scripts (worked fine in
>Postgres 6.4.2), got errors for every table with a primary key, such as:
>
>ipbilling=> create table ACCESS_CODE (
>ipbilling->     ACC_SEQ_NO           decimal(9) primary key,
>ipbilling->     ACC_ACCESS_CODE      character varying (12) not null,
>ipbilling->     ACC_ROOM_NO          character varying (10) not null,
>ipbilling->     ACC_VALID_FROM_DT    timestamp not null,
>ipbilling->     ACC_VALID_TO_DT      timestamp not null,
>ipbilling->     ACC_CREATED_DT       timestamp not null
>ipbilling-> );
>NOTICE:  CREATE TABLE/PRIMARY KEY will create implicit index
'access_code_pkey' for table 'access_code'
>ERROR:  Can't find a default operator class for type 1700.
>
>Dropped the primary key constraint, and the table created fine (see next
>section). Tried creating an index manually on the same field, and it
>failed as well.
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>Please describe a way to repeat the problem.   Please try to provide a
>concise reproducible example, if at all possible:
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>ipbilling=> create table ACCESS_CODE (
>ipbilling->     ACC_SEQ_NO           decimal(9),
>ipbilling->     ACC_ACCESS_CODE      character varying (12) not null,
>ipbilling->     ACC_ROOM_NO          character varying (10) not null,
>ipbilling->     ACC_VALID_FROM_DT    timestamp not null,
>ipbilling->     ACC_VALID_TO_DT      timestamp not null,
>ipbilling->     ACC_CREATED_DT       timestamp not null
>ipbilling-> );
>CREATE
>ipbilling=> create unique index test_index on access_code (acc_seq_no);
>ERROR:  Can't find a default operator class for type 1700.
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