From: | Herouth Maoz <herouth(at)oumail(dot)openu(dot)ac(dot)il> |
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To: | JT Kirkpatrick <jt-kirkpatrick(at)mpsllc(dot)com>, "'pgsql-sql(at)hub(dot)org'" <pgsql-sql(at)hub(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: [SQL] convert text to varchar |
Date: | 1999-05-03 16:02:15 |
Message-ID: | l03130308b3537874e3d1@[147.233.159.109] |
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At 18:33 +0300 on 03/05/1999, JT Kirkpatrick wrote:
> hi! i have a text field (table ap3, field name apnote) that i would like
> to insert into a varchar field (same field name, table name ap). any idea
> why this doesn't work? insert into ap (apnote) select varchar('apnote')
> from ap3; -- it fails with or without the single quotes.
Should be simply
INSERT INTO ap (apnote)
SELECT ap3.apnote
FROM ap3;
You really shouldn't have single quotes, and the conversion to text is
supposed to be automatic.
Herouth
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Herouth Maoz, Internet developer.
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