Larry Bottorff wrote:
I'm doing something very typical: I created a sequence "seq" and then
wanted to insert the NEXTVAL('seq') into a varchar field of a table to be
used as a primary key. INSERT INTO products (prodno, ...) VALUES (NEXTVAL('seq'), 'blah',
'blah');
Where prodno is varchar. I tried a text(...) cast, but it complains of a
text-varchar mismatch. There is no varchar(...).
Apparently, this is not possible in Postgres(?).
Larry Bottorff SouthWind Internet Access, Inc.
System Programmer 120 S. Market St. Suite 300
swprenzl@southwind.net Wichita, KS 67202
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try:
INSERT INTO products (prodno, ...) VALUES (NEXTVAL('seq')::text, 'blah', ...);
Example:
test=>CREATE TABLE seq_varchar (field1 varchar(4), field2 text, primary key (field1));
NOTICE: CREATE TABLE/PRIMARY KEY will create implicit index var_pkey for table var
CREATE
test=>CREATE SEQUENCE seq_test;
test=>INSERT INTO seq_varchar VALUES (NEXTVAL ( 'seq_test' )::text, 'blablabla');
INSERT 741504 1
test=>SELECT * FROM seq_varchar;
field1|field2
------+---------
1|blablabla
(1 row)
test=>INSERT INTO seq_varchar VALUES (NEXTVAL ( 'seq_test' )::text, 'blahblahblah');
INSERT 741505 1
test=>SELECT * FROM seq_varchar;
field1|field2
------+------------
1|blablabla
2|blahblahblah
(2 rows)
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Best,
George Moga,
george@flex.ro
george@cicnet.ro
Braila, ROMANIA
