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

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: cast problem in Postgresql 9.0.1
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Msg-id 3346.1296595901@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: cast problem in Postgresql 9.0.1  ("Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>)
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"Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com> writes:
> 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 couldn't do it in previous releases, either.

            regards, tom lane

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