Re: Smallint - Integer Casting Problems in Plpgsql functions

Hi Richard.
Thank you for your reply. I rewrote the store procedure to accept
integer instead of smallint.

What i don't understand is why the casting is working in 7.2.3. What
has been changed from that?

Thank you,

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Doct. Eng. Denis Gasparin: denis(at)edistar(dot)com
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Programmer & System Administrator - Edistar srl

Richard Huxton wrote:

>On Wednesday 17 March 2004 15:54, Denis Gasparin wrote:
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>>Hi, i'm upgrading our database from postgresql 7.2.3 to 7.4.2.
>>The import went fine but i have some casting problems with plpgsql
>>functions.
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>>I've create a test function with this code:
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>>create function test(varchar,smallint,integer) returns integer as '
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>>select test('aaa',1,1);
>>gives me the following error:
>>ERROR: function test("unknown", integer, integer) does not exist
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>Easiest solution is to just define the function as accepting integer rather
>than smallint.
>I believe the typeing will be smarter in 7.5 but don't know if it will affect
>this situation.
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