From: | John Burski <John(dot)Burski(at)911ep(dot)com> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Casting problem |
Date: | 2001-11-06 14:59:40 |
Message-ID: | 3BE7FADC.3040004@911ep.com |
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That was it! I re-defined the related columns and the problem
disappeared. :)
Thanks.
Tom Lane wrote:
> John Burski <John(dot)Burski(at)911ep(dot)com> writes:
>
>> clocker=# DELETE FROM employee_tbl WHERE emp_id = '1119';
>> ERROR: Unable to identify an operator '=' for types 'varchar' and 'bpchar'
>> You will have to retype this query using an explicit cast
>
>
> I'll bet you have a foreign-key constraint referencing this table,
> and the other column is varchar not char. 7.1 detects unexecutable
> FK constraints when you try to create one, but 7.0 didn't, IIRC.
>
> regards, tom lane
>
>
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