int4 to varchar conversion - Mailing list pgsql-sql

From Larry Bottorff
Subject int4 to varchar conversion
Date
Msg-id Pine.BSI.4.02A.9901070928360.239-100000@jasper.southwind.net
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I'm doing something very typical: I created a sequence "seq" and then
wanted to insert the NEXTVAL('seq') into a varchar field of a table to be
used as a primary key.

INSERT INTO products (prodno, ...) VALUES (NEXTVAL('seq'), 'blah',
'blah');

Where prodno is varchar. I tried a text(...) cast, but it complains of a
text-varchar mismatch. There is no varchar(...).

Apparently, this is not possible in Postgres(?).


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