The error went away; I updated the admin tool I use (pg lightning admin) and
that seemed to help.
Thanks everyone.
Julius Tuskenis-2 wrote:
>
> Raymond O'Donnell rašė:
>> A lot of previously automatic casts were removed in the 8.3 series -
>> this is possibly one of them.
>>
>> You now need to cast explicitly in such cases, e.g.
>>
>> select '5'::integer;
>>
>> Ray.
>>
> That is a good advice and a good practice. But the solution usually
> takes time. For a quick (temporary) solution you could write your own
> operator for handling "char" = integer cases.
>
> I had to do it once for an "integer ILIKE text" operator:
>
> CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION of_integer_ilike_text(prm_integer integer,
> prm_text text)
> RETURNS boolean AS
> $BODY$BEGIN
> RETURN prm_integer::text ~~* prm_text ;
> END;$BODY$
> LANGUAGE 'plpgsql' VOLATILE
> COST 100;
> ALTER FUNCTION of_integer_ilike_text(integer, text) OWNER TO useris;
>
> CREATE OPERATOR ~~(
> PROCEDURE = of_integer_ilike_text,
> LEFTARG = int4,
> RIGHTARG = text);
>
> I'm sure you'll manage to do this for "text = integer";
>
> Julius Tuskenis
>
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