Re: cast problem in Postgresql 9.0.1 - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Joshua D. Drake
Subject Re: cast problem in Postgresql 9.0.1
Date
Msg-id 1296595334.18411.38.camel@jd-desktop
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In response to cast problem in Postgresql 9.0.1  (AI Rumman <rummandba@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: cast problem in Postgresql 9.0.1
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On Tue, 2011-02-01 at 12:14 +0600, AI Rumman wrote:
> I migrated my DB from Postgresql 8.1 to Postgresql 9.0.1.
>
> I have a table "testtab"
> \d testtab
> id int,
> hours varchar
>
> When I execute the following:
> select sum(hours) from testtab
> I get cast error.
>
In 8.3, implicit casts were removed. You can't sum text. You need to
change the data type to a proper numerical type.

Joshua D. Drake

>
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