Re: Strange Type Mismatch on Insert - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Stephan Szabo
Subject Re: Strange Type Mismatch on Insert
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Msg-id Pine.BSF.4.21.0103191716290.27292-100000@megazone23.bigpanda.com
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In response to Re: Strange Type Mismatch on Insert  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: Strange Type Mismatch on Insert  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Mon, 19 Mar 2001, Tom Lane wrote:

> Jeff Eckermann <jeckermann@verio.net> writes:
> > Can anyone see what is the problem with the following insert?
> > gmp=# insert into data (site, gmp_id, item, category, gmp) values
> > ('Rochester', 22, 'Design fee', 12, 40000.00);
> > ERROR:  Unable to identify an operator '=' for types 'text' and 'int4'
>
> Got any foreign keys associated with that table?  Check for type
> mismatch between referencing and referenced columns.  It's a bug
> that such problems are not detected when you declare the key
> relationship, but right now they're not detected until runtime...

As an odd side note on that...

I have a fix, using oper() to look for an = operator.  I noticed
while doing that though that varchar and int4 appear to be comparable
while text and int4 aren't which seemed rather odd.


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