Re: can't cast char to in - Mailing list pgsql-general

On Apr 22, 2008, at 10:34 AM, blackwater dev wrote:

I have a table with a mileage column that is a character varying (please don't ask why :).

I need to do a query where mileage > 500

select * from cars where mileage>500

So I need to cast it but everything I try throws an error such as :

ERROR:  invalid input syntax for integer: "+"

How can I cast this?

Well, you didn't really give any real information on the format of the data in your mileage column.  However, my guess is that you've got at least one row with just '+' in the mileage column which is not the same thing as '+0'.  You'll probably need to do a little data cleaning and, once that's done you should definitely consider switching that to an integer/numeric data type.

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