Concatenation Snafu - Mailing list pgsql-sql

From Thomas Good
Subject Concatenation Snafu
Date
Msg-id Pine.LNX.4.44.0303251726580.23371-100000@q8.nrnet.org
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SELECT code || ' ' || diag, code
FROM dsm4
WHERE axis = 1
ORDER BY code;

This worked on 6.3-7.3.1 now it dies with:
'unable to identify an operator || for types 'character' and 'character
varying'

What happened?????

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