Re: Proposal for resolving casting issues

From: "Christopher Kings-Lynne" <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>
To: "Christopher Kings-Lynne" <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>, "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "Zeugswetter Andreas SB SD" <ZeugswetterA(at)spardat(dot)at>
Cc: "Bruce Momjian" <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Proposal for resolving casting issues
Date: 2002-09-20 02:40:31
Message-ID: GNELIHDDFBOCMGBFGEFOEEFJCEAA.chriskl@familyhealth.com.au
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Doh - I'm stupid. Ignore my question :)

Helps if you spell 'average' as 'avg' :)

Chris

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> Kings-Lynne
> Sent: Friday, 20 September 2002 10:03 AM
> To: Tom Lane; Zeugswetter Andreas SB SD
> Cc: Bruce Momjian; pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Proposal for resolving casting issues
>
>
> Will the new casting stuff address this kind of annoyance?
>
> usa=# select average(octet_length(val)) from users_sessions;
> ERROR: Function 'average(int4)' does not exist
> Unable to identify a function that satisfies the given argument
> types
> You may need to add explicit typecasts
>
> Chris
>
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