Re: Possible bug on insert

What was it that changed in 7.3 that made this behavior change. (it worked
in 7.2)

Thanks,

Rick Gigger

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Rick Gigger" <rick(at)alpinenetworking(dot)com>
Cc: <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Sent: Monday, October 06, 2003 1:04 PM
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Possible bug on insert

> "Rick Gigger" <rick(at)alpinenetworking(dot)com> writes:
> > insert into bugtest (a) select '1' union select '1'; -- this one fails
>
> > Is this a bug?
>
> No. It's unfortunate perhaps, but it's not a bug. The UNION forces us
> to make a decision about the output datatype of the UNION operation.
> In your other cases the chosen datatype is integer, which can later be
> cast to smallint for the insert, but in this case the chosen datatype is
> text, which is not implicitly castable to smallint.
>
> regards, tom lane
>
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