Re: Insert/select union bug

On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 01:05:56PM +0300, Peter wrote:
> Typecast eliminates the issue, you're right on that as well. However, my
> problem is that those statements are dynamically generated on various
> tables/columns, so typecasting would mean extracting target field type
> and translating fieldtype code into SQL typename. Rather messy.

In general, pushing down of types from the insert is a bit tricky, the
planner tries to unify the UNION first and needs a type for the values.
It guesses "text" if it doesn't know.

Using COPY avoids this issue ofcourse, because there's a direct link to
the table. Similarly, as of 8.2 it will be possible to do:

INSERT INTO table (blah) VALUES (x,y,a),(f,d,g),(s,f,g), etc...

Which will also avoid the issue.

Have a nice day,
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