Re: Cast in PG 8.3

On Feb 5, 2008 2:22 PM, Franklin Haut <franklin(dot)haut(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> I´m testing the new version of PostgreSQL in windows plataform but i have a
> problem.
>
>
> In PG 8.2
>
> Create Table temp (id int4);
> insert into temp values (1215);
> insert into temp values (1216);
> insert into temp values (1217);
> insert into temp values (1218);
> insert into temp values (1219);
> insert into temp values (1220);
> insert into temp values (1221);
> insert into temp values (1222);
> SELECT * FROM TEMP WHERE id ilike ('%122%');
>
> return ok, 3 rows (1220, 1221 and 1222)
>
>
>
> In PG 8.3
>
> Create Table temp (id integer);
> insert into temp values (1215);
> insert into temp values (1216);
> insert into temp values (1217);
> insert into temp values (1218);
> insert into temp values (1219);
> insert into temp values (1220);
> insert into temp values (1221);
> insert into temp values (1222);
> SELECT * FROM TEMP WHERE id ilike ('%122%');
>
> Error:
> operator does not exist: integer ~~* unknown at character 31
> HINT: No operator matches the given name and argument type(s).
> You might need to add explicit type casts.
>

did you read the release notes?
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/release-8-3.html
"""
Non-character data types are no longer automatically cast to TEXT (Peter, Tom)
"""

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