Re: Invalid (null) int8, can't convert to float8

Thanks a lot Tom, 

Tom Lane wrote:
> 
> Tim Pizey <tim@paneris.co.uk> writes:
> We have had some discussions about teaching the parser to be smarter
> about choosing the type of numeric constants depending on context,
> but for now you need to force the issue:
> 
> select id from chapter where textid = 9057599501::int8;
> 
> If you want the index to be used then you'd better do this all the
> time, not only for values that are too big to be int4.
> 
This problem is actually happening through jdbc, using
PreparedStatements, 
shouldn't jdbc be able to deal with casting transparently?

I am calling this with a string "chapter = ?" which automatically quotes 
and escapes string values correctly.

Hope this isn't too wrong
timp


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