| From: | "Adam Rich" <adam(dot)r(at)sbcglobal(dot)net> |
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| To: | "'Thomas Kellerer'" <spam_eater(at)gmx(dot)net>, <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Confused about CASE |
| Date: | 2008-03-01 00:02:01 |
| Message-ID: | 031401c87b2f$79a401d0$6cec0570$@r@sbcglobal.net |
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> "The data types of all the result expressions must be convertible to a
> single output type."
The type of the field pg_class.relkind appears to be "char" which is
described in the notes as:
The type "char" (note the quotes) is different from char(1) in that it
only uses one byte of storage. It is internally used in the system catalogs
as a poor-man's enumeration type.
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/interactive/datatype-character.html
But one would expect "char" to be "convertible" to text for the purposes
of CASE. Both implicit and explicit cast to text seems to work fine.
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