| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Karen Springer <karen(dot)springer(at)wulfsberg(dot)com> |
| Cc: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: View fields are cast as text and link to Access as a Memo field |
| Date: | 2008-01-30 00:46:35 |
| Message-ID: | 28912.1201653995@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Karen Springer <karen(dot)springer(at)wulfsberg(dot)com> writes:
> I need employeeName to be a text field in Access. I have tried casting
> the fields in the view as varchar, but it seem to default back to ::text.
The result of a || operator is always going to be type text. Put the
cast around the whole expression, not just the individual fields.
For instance,
CASE
WHEN "Participant_Names"."NameUsed" IS NULL THEN
("Participant_Names"."LastNAME" || ', ') || "Participant_Names"."FirstName"
ELSE ("Participant_Names"."LastNAME" || ', ') || "Participant_Names"."NameUsed"
END :: varchar AS "employeeName"
regards, tom lane
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