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Re: WARNING: column "footype" has type "unknown"


  • From: "Ed L." <pgsql(at)bluepolka(dot)net>
  • To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
  • Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
  • Subject: Re: WARNING: column "footype" has type "unknown"
  • Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 17:34:47 -0600
  • Message-id: <200410271734.47938.pgsql@bluepolka.net> <text/plain>

On Wednesday October 27 2004 5:24, Tom Lane wrote:
> An example of what you won't be able to do:
>
> regression=# select distinct * from fooview;
> ERROR:  failed to find conversion function from "unknown" to text

Is that 8.0 you're working against there?  Here's my 7.4.6 installation:

$ psql -c "create view fooview as select 'bar' as footype"
WARNING:  column "footype" has type "unknown"
DETAIL:  Proceeding with relation creation anyway.
CREATE VIEW

$ psql -c "select * from fooview"
 footype 
---------
 bar
(1 row)





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