Re: Select Cast Error - Mailing list pgsql-general

From mike
Subject Re: Select Cast Error
Date
Msg-id 1158896547.32431.7.camel@localhost.localdomain
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In response to Select Cast Error  ("Brad Budge" <bradbudge@hotmail.com>)
List pgsql-general
> select cast((max(substring(test.test from 6 for 4))) as integer) + 1
> FROM test where max(substring(test.test from 11 for 2));

This where clause is just returning a number but not comparing it to
anything.  Normally it would be something like WHERE test.test  =
max(substring(test.test from 11 for 2)).  That is the reason for the
error message you are seeing.

I don't quite get how you are expecting to return 4 from 0004 instead of
3 from 0003 based on the statement above.

Mike
>
>
> List below is a better idea of what my table looks like and the result
> I need.
>
> PROJ-0004-05
>
> PROJ-0001-06
>
> PROJ-0002-06
>
> PROJ-0003-06
>
>
>
> When I run my select statement I want to return the number 4.  The
> idea is that I need the next highest number in the middle but take in
> consideration that the highest trailing numbers take president.
>
>
>
> There error I get is this  ERROR:  argument of WHERE must be type
> boolean, not type text
>
>
>
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