On 6 Dec 2001, Joachim Trinkwitz wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I want to alter a table by creating a similar temporary table with my
> modifications and inserting the values of the old table, but I get the
> error message:
>
> ERROR: Attribute 'tag' is of type '_bpchar' but expression is of type 'bpchar'
> You will need to rewrite or cast the expression
>
> Question is how do I do this, because when I write the offending value
> as tag::_bpchar, I get:
>
> ERROR: Cannot cast type 'bpchar' to '_bpchar'
>
> This seems to be a dilemma which I don't know how to solve. I hope
> someone can help me.
Can you send the create statements for the two tables? It looks like
one of the two has an array of chars, but I'm not sure.
