Re: Trying to append text to the end of a text string

On Wed, 2005-10-05 at 17:30, Adam Lawrence wrote:
> Hi
>
> I am trying to append text onto the end of a text variable.
>
> I have the text variable P_IDT_ID, I want to add the letter S to the
> end of it, so I tried the following line in my code:
>
> P_IDT_ID := P_IDT_ID && cast(''S'' as text);
>
> However, I got the following error message:
>
> ERROR:  operator does not exist: text && text
> HINT:  No operator matches the given name and argument type(s). You
> may need to add explicit type casts.
> CONTEXT:  SQL statement "SELECT   $1  && cast('S' as text)"
> PL/pgSQL function "f_create_index_currency_inversion" line 28 at
> assignment

Did you try using the || concatenation operator there?