Re: NULL value in subselect in UNION causes error

On 1/26/2007 3:41 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Jan Wieck <JanWieck(at)Yahoo(dot)com> writes:
>> Checked it against HEAD and 8.2:
>> postgres=# select 1, 1, 1 union select * from (select 2, null, 2) two;
>> ERROR: failed to find conversion function from "unknown" to integer
>
> It's always done that. The SQL spec would tell you that you have to
> cast the null to some specific type. We allow untyped nulls in contexts
> where we can derive a type from reasonably nearby context, but an
> integer two levels up and over in another union arm isn't very nearby
> IMHO. So I'm not particularly concerned about making this work ...

That explains. Thanks.

Jan

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