"Hermann Muster" <Hermann.Muster@gmx.de> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I encountered something I can't really explain. I use the following
> statement in my application:
>
> COALESCE(UPPER(SUBSTR("Y"."Firma",1,7)),'')
>
> This returns "ERROR: syntax error at end of input"
>
>
> However, using the following statement is fine:
>
> COALESCE(SUBSTR(UPPER("X"."Firma"), 1, 7), '')
>
>
> The fieldtype of "Firma" is character varying.
>
> The only difference is the order of UPPER and SUBSTR. Is it possible that
> this changed during some PostgreSQL version update? By the way, right now
> I'm using 8.2.
>
> Regards,
> Hermann