Re: Problem with Subquery

Could you send the schema for the tables

From what the error message is saying you have a numeric field and are
trying to say that it equals a varchar field

Darren Ferguson

On Thu, 7 Mar 2002, Marc Polatschek wrote:

> We recently changed our database system from Oracle 8i to postgreSQL. Im
> right now changing our cold fusion code and i have get this problem:
>
>     select    ID,
>             NAME,
>             WEBSITE_URL,
>             (
>             select    count(*)
>             from        MAIN_PC_GAME,
>                     MAIN_COMPANY
>             where        DEVELOPER_ID = MAIN_COMPANY.ID
>             or        PUBLISHER_ID = MAIN_COMPANY.ID
>             ) as TOTAL
>     from        MAIN_COMPANY
>     where        (
>                      lower(SOFTWARE_DEVELOPER)='yes'
>             or         lower(SOFTWARE_PUBLISHER)='yes'
>             )
>
> This SQL statement isnt working with postgreSQL but it worked without
> any problems in Oracle. Postgres Error Message:
>
>     Unable to identify an operator '=' for types 'character varying'
> and 'numeric'
>     You will have to retype this query using an explicit cast
>
> I think postgreSQL cant handle the variable MAIN_COMPANY.ID from the
> parent Scope. Probably there is a way to mark this variable to find it
> in the caller.scope. But i dont know how.
>
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