Re: [GENERAL] cast issue in WITH RECURION - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Alban Hertroys
Subject Re: [GENERAL] cast issue in WITH RECURION
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Msg-id 72AC9D09-FBE8-49EB-BF17-9C29591ED2FB@gmail.com
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In response to [GENERAL] cast issue in WITH RECURION  (k b <k_b0000@yahoo.se>)
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> On 3 Aug 2017, at 20:22, k b <k_b0000@yahoo.se> wrote:
>
> when i create a recursive query and try to add the distances i get a message:
> ERROR:  recursive query "edges" column 3 has type numeric(7,3) in non-recursive term but type numeric overall.

> My exercise is almost identical to the example in the docs:
> WITH RECURSIVE search_graph(id, link, data, depth, path, cycle) AS (
>        SELECT g.id, g.link, g.data, 1,
>          ARRAY[g.id],
>          false
>        FROM graph g
>      UNION ALL
>        SELECT g.id, g.link,
>        sg.data + g.data, -- altered section, data is numeric(7,3)
>        sg.depth + 1,
>          path || g.id,
>          g.id = ANY(path)
>        FROM graph g, search_graph sg
>        WHERE g.id = sg.link AND NOT cycle
> )
> SELECT * FROM search_graph;

I believe the solution is rather simple; just cast(sg.data + g.data to numeric(7,3))

Alban Hertroys
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