Re: cast problem in Postgresql 9.0.1

From: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: AI Rumman <rummandba(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general General <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: cast problem in Postgresql 9.0.1
Date: 2011-02-01 21:22:14
Message-ID: 1296595334.18411.38.camel@jd-desktop
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On Tue, 2011-02-01 at 12:14 +0600, AI Rumman wrote:
> I migrated my DB from Postgresql 8.1 to Postgresql 9.0.1.
>
> I have a table "testtab"
> \d testtab
> id int,
> hours varchar
>
> When I execute the following:
> select sum(hours) from testtab
> I get cast error.
>
In 8.3, implicit casts were removed. You can't sum text. You need to
change the data type to a proper numerical type.

Joshua D. Drake

>
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