Hi Borek,
What version of PostgreSQL are you using? This works fine for me on
7.02. Time to update, maybe?
Hope this helps
Francis
>
> Hello all,
>
> My following problem is:
>
> swports=# select substring(cp from 1 for 4)::int4 from out2cp;
> ERROR: pg_atoi: error in "6.1,": can't parse ".1,"
>
> SQL syntax is apparently OK. When I omit the typecast, the query
> works:
>
> swports=# select substring(cp from 1 for 4) from out2cp;
> substr
> --------
> 3182
> 3182
> 3182
> -8<- text deleted ---
>
> The cp entries are varchars in form NNNN.N, where N is numeral.
> So can someone explain why the parse error?
>
