Judith Altamirano Figueroa wrote:
> I moved from postgres 7.0.2 to 8.0.1,
If you only have one compatability problem, I'd be surprised.
> in the 7.0.2 version I process the next query, and it succeed:
>
> select ichar(letra_ascii) || '-' || substr('00000' ||num_factura,length
> (num_factura)+1,5) as factura from facturas
>
> but in 8.0.1 it outputs the next error:
>
> ERROR: not exist the function ichar(integer)
> HINT: any function match with the arguments types.
> Add explicit cast of types
I'll point you to Tom Lane's thoughts on this back in 2000:
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2000-09/msg00418.php
HTH
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