Re: [GENERAL] Problems with '||' concatenation operator.

>Beth Strohmayer wrote
>
>>cgh=> select chromosome || arm as locus from experiment;
>>ERROR: There is more than one possible operator '||' for types 'varchar'
>>and 'b
>>pchar'
>> You will have to retype this query using an explicit cast
>>cgh=>
>
>Try select chromosome || varchar(arm) as locus from experiment;
>

Doesn't work for me,

cgh=> select chromosome || varchar(arm) as locus from experiments;
ERROR: parser: Syntax error at or near "arm"

neither does select chromosome || arm::varchar as locus from experiment;

but the solution is clearly in some form of casting!

I'm using PG 6.4, perhaps it's a version thing?

regards,

S.

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