Re: Recasting data type

On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 11:31:43AM -0800, Conrad Schuler wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Thanks for the help on the 'lumper' vs. 'splitter' question.
>
> I asked my practice database:
>
> select count (*) from titles where price > 20
>
> It responded:
>
> PostgreSQL said: ERROR: Unable to identify an operator '>' for types
> 'money' and 'int4' You will have to retype this query using an explicit cast
>
> I tried variations on this theme and got nowhere:
> select count (*) from titles cast(price as float8) where price > 20

Why don't you try:

select count(*) from titles where price > 20.00

It seems that the explicit decimal should automatically cause the
cast. I'm not positive it will work, but it's worth a try.

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