Re: XMIN/xid vs UNION

Try a cast, or just use UNION ALL

On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 04:44:37PM +0200, Karsten Hilbert wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> some of my views are created with help of the UNION operator.
> Now, I also need to include the base table XMIN system column
> into those views. Which works fine (as long as I alias them)
> except that UNION does an internal sort. My PG version (7.4)
> complains about not being able to find a sort operator for
> data type XID (of which XMIN is).
>
> Searching the web unearthes a solution for loading those
> missing operators for as early as 6.4.1 (1998) !
>
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/1998-11/msg00096.php
>
> Strangely enough I see those operators listed in the release
> notes for 7.2 ...
>
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.2/interactive/release-7-2.html
>
> Are those operators included in PG > 7.4 ? Should they be ? Is
> it my version that's compiled without them, perhaps ?
>
> Thanks,
> Karsten
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