Ignore previous half-completed email.
How do you get this to work in 7.2.1?
I'm creating a view of a table, but I'm trying to do something like
this:
create table t ( id integer not null, amount numeric(7,2)
);
create view v as select id as v_id, 'paid amount: ' || amount as v_comment from t
;
You get this:
ERROR: Unable to identify an operator '||' for types 'unknown' and
'numeric' You will have to retype this query using an explicit cast
None of these work:
CAST(amount AS text)
CAST(amount AS varchar)
CAST(amount AS char)
and this:
CAST(amount AS real) works, but if amount is 12.00, then you just get '12' -
which is not cool.
Any ideas?
Chris
