Re: 8.3beta bug or feature?

On Jan 10, 2008, at 10:47 AM, marcelo Cortez wrote:

> folks
>
> the follow queries work in postgres 8.2 but
> in 8.3beta don't work
>
>
> SELECT c.* FROM c WHERE c.numero LIKE '1%';
>
> i think automatic conversion of numeber to text is
> the problem , in 8.3beta don't work
> numero field is integer type
> any ideas?

Read the release notes :) Implicit casts from non-text types to text
have been removed. The easiest solution is to use an explicit cast:

SELECT c.* FROM c WHERE c.numero::text LIKE '1%';

I can definitely see this being an 8.3 faq.

Erik Jones

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