Re: pgsql do not handle NULL constants in the view

Thx it helps.

Shame on me %) I forgot that NULL itself has no type, and thought that each constant in the view are casted to the resulting type at the creation time.

-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us]
Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2008 4:54 PM
To: Sergey Hripchenko
Cc: pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [PERFORM] pgsql do not handle NULL constants in the view

Sergey Hripchenko <shripchenko(at)intermedia(dot)net> writes:
> CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW bar AS
> SELECT *
> FROM (
> (
> SELECT calldate, duration, billsec, get_asterisk_cdr_caller_id(accountcode) AS caller_id
> FROM asterisk_cdr
> ) UNION ALL (
> SELECT start_time, get_interval_seconds(completed_time-start_time), get_interval_seconds(answered_time-start_time), NULL
> FROM asterisk_huntgroups_calls
> )
> ) AS foo;

Try casting the NULL to integer (or whatever the datatype of the other
union arm is) explicitly.

regards, tom lane

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