Re: Newbie question about casting literals - oracle/postgres

hi,

I think it works for me.  what version of postgres do you have? maybe
you just need to upgrade : )

test=# select cust_id, 'TEST' as test, cust_address from customers;
   cust_id   | test |     cust_address
------------+------+----------------------
  1000000001 | TEST | 200 Maple Lane
  1000000002 | TEST | 333 South Lake Drive
  1000000003 | TEST | 1 Sunny Place
  1000000004 | TEST | 829 Riverside Drive
  1000000005 | TEST | 4545 53rd Street
  1000000006 | TEST |
(6 rows)

test=# select version();
                                                             version
------------------------------------------------------------------------
--------------------------------------------------------
  PostgreSQL 7.3.7 on powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC gcc
(GCC) 3.2.3 20030422 (Gentoo Linux 1.4 3.2.3-r4, propolice)
(1 row)

hth,

dianne

On Oct 26, 2004, at 6:24 PM, Naeem Bari wrote:

> Ok,
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> I have a query that runs fine in oracle:
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>    select driver_id, 'GREEN' as color, pos_date, pos_lat, pos_lon
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>    from driver_pos
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>    where driver_id = 1
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>    order by pos_date
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> The only way this works in postgres is by casting ‘GREEN’ to text
> using ‘GREEN’::text
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> 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?
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>  
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> Thanks!
>
> naeem