From: | "Skylar Hawk" <skylar(dot)j(dot)hawk(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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To: | pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | BUG #6020: Wrong data type returned after CAST in FROM |
Date: | 2011-05-10 22:36:32 |
Message-ID: | 201105102236.p4AMaW5e038211@wwwmaster.postgresql.org |
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The following bug has been logged online:
Bug reference: 6020
Logged by: Skylar Hawk
Email address: skylar(dot)j(dot)hawk(at)gmail(dot)com
PostgreSQL version: 9.0.3
Operating system: OpenBSD
Description: Wrong data type returned after CAST in FROM
Details:
Hello,
I noticed a strange nuance. When I do a regular select on data that I CAST
as a CHAR(), the data I am returned is of type character() as I would
expect. For example:
SELECT
CAST('abcd' AS CHAR(4)) AS data
This returns 'abcd' where the type is character(4).
However, if I do the cast in the FROM portion of the query such as this:
SELECT
data
FROM
CAST('abcd' AS CHAR(4)) AS data
then I am returned 'abcd' and the type is bpchar.
I did not have this issue when I was using Postgres 8.4. I upgraded last
week, and that's when I noticed the issue in a couple database functions I
had written.
-Sky
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