>"Uwe C. Schroeder" <uwe@oss4u.com> wrote on 08/07/2006 11:30:28 AM: > Well, you cast all those fields to be concatenated to text. Why should the db > make a varchar out of that? I seriously doubt that 7.x made a varchar of that > - but then, 7.2 is very very old. > So either cast your fields to varchar (i.e. c.refullname::varchar || > d.enname::varchar) or cast the result of the concatenation to a varchar. > > UC
FYI in 8.1.4 if the cast is changed to varchar the result still comes out as a text field >> SELECT (c.refullname::varchar || d.enname::varchar || f.evname::varchar) AS evlinkname1, results in evlinkname1 as text
