You will need to cats '01044T' to bpchar since postgres will take any
string as a varchar unless specified otherwise.
Use the following
DELETE FROM inventory WHERE invid = '01044T'::VARCHAR;
HTH
Darren
On Wed, 17 Jul 2002, Daniel Bakken wrote:
> When running the following DELETE FROM in psql,
>
> omni=# DELETE FROM inventory WHERE invid = '01044T';
> ERROR: Unable to identify an operator '=' for types 'varchar' and 'bpchar'
> You will have to retype this query using an explicit cast
>
> I receive the above error message. The field "invid" is a bpchar.
>
> TIA,
>
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