Re: please help me with text cast to int ....

On Sun, 11 Jul 2004, Theodore Petrosky wrote:

> I give up.. what don't I understand about casting and
> ints and text..
>
> i have a table jobinfo with:
>
> acode text,
> jobnumber text default
> nextval('public.jobinfo_seq'::text),
> jobtitle text
>
> I have about 3000 rows starting with jobnumber = 1000.
>
> SELECT jobnumber, jobtitle FROM jobinfo WHERE
> jobnumber >= 999 ORDER BY jobnumber ASC;

This is going to do a textual comparison, not an integer one.
So it's looking for jobnumbers greater than the string '999'.

If you want to treat jobnumber as an integer, CAST(jobnumber as integer)
>= 999 may be what you want. Note, however that it will fail if there are
any non-numeric jobnumber rows. In general, storing numbers in strings
that you want to act upon as numbers is a bad idea.