Re: Newbie question about casting literals - oracle/postgres

The only way this works in postgres is by casting ‘GREEN’ to text using ‘GREEN’::text

 

The problem is then this does not work with oracle. Since my software has to support both databases, I am left in a bit of a bind. Any ideas on how to make postgres accept ‘GREEN’ as text without my having to spell it out by casting?

You could create separate views for both. That means you would have to keep seperate views for each database but the SQL in your code would be the same.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake

 

Thanks!

naeem

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