Re: [GENERAL] ERROR: failed to find conversion function from "unknown" to text - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Scott Marlowe
Subject Re: [GENERAL] ERROR: failed to find conversion function from "unknown" to text
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Msg-id dcc563d10901060129w6f7d426dg59b451f812859d22@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: [GENERAL] ERROR: failed to find conversion function from "unknown" to text  ("Gurjeet Singh" <singh.gurjeet@gmail.com>)
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On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 2:24 AM, Gurjeet Singh <singh.gurjeet@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 2:43 PM, Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 2:04 AM, Gurjeet Singh <singh.gurjeet@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > I took your cue, and have formulated this solution for 8.3.1 :
>>
>> Is there a good reason you're running against a db version with known
>> bugs instead of 8.3.5?  Seriously, it's an easy upgrade and running a
>> version missing over a year of updates is not a best practice.
>
> That's just a development instance that I have kept for long; actual issue
> was on EDB 8.3.0.12, which the customer is using. As noted in the PS of
> previous mail, the solution that worked for PG 8.3.1 didn't work on EDB
> 8.3.0.12, so had to come up with a different code for that!

Ahh, ok.  I was just worried you were ignoring updates.  I don't know
anything about the numbering scheme for EDB.  What does 8.3.0.12
translate to in regular pgsql versions?

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