On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 10:06 AM, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> wrote:
On Thu, 2013-04-04 at 19:50 -0300, Rodrigo Barboza wrote: > -- my_uint32 is my new type > CREATE TABLE test (a my_uin32); > > If I try to run this insert, postgres complain about the type: > INSERT INTO teste (a) VALUES (10); > > But this one works: > NSERT INTO teste (a) VALUES ('10'::my_uint); > > Is there a way to avoid the single quotes? >
A constant like 10 is initially assigned one of the integer types (the exact rules are in the documentation). In order to be able to store that into a column of a custom type, you need to define a cast between the integer type and your type with at least assignment context.