Re: UNION not working... why?

From: Stefan Schwarzer <stefan(dot)schwarzer(at)grid(dot)unep(dot)ch>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: UNION not working... why?
Date: 2007-12-14 07:07:41
Message-ID: 1B2BDD49-E6EC-4D9C-84B9-5AF9519A666A@grid.unep.ch
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>> But now, I have another problem in this context. If I use text in the
>> SELECT statement (so, that the final output gives me the name of the
>> selected variables, plus the year and the value) than I get this
>> error message: ERROR: failed to find conversion function from
>> "unknown" to text
>
> [squint...] Try casting those literals to text explicitly, ie
> SELECT 'pop_density'::text AS name. There's some code in there
> that makes this work for simple UNION cases, but maybe not so much
> for select with a left join and order by and limit inside a union :-(

You guys are really great! Yep, it works like that like a charm...

Thanks a lot for your help!

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