Re: Cast NULL into Timestamp?

On Fri, 10 Dec 2004, 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?

CAST(NULL as timestamp) should work.