Re: [EXTERNAL] Pgsql error in coalesce

Hi,
I thought it check the data type of the specified column. Isn't it the case
here?

On Mon, 27 Jul 2020, 22:57 Vianello, Dan A, <Dan(dot)Vianello(at)charter(dot)com>
wrote:

> Your column name “column_name” is of type text. The number 255 is an
> integer. Since those datatypes don’t match the coalesce function fails.
> If the data in “column_name” can always be cast to an integer then you can
> use
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> Select coalesce(column_name::integer, 255);
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> Or you can cast 255 to a text string of ‘255’ with this:
>
> Select coalesce(column_name, '255'::text);
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