The following bug has been logged online: Bug reference: 5372 Logged by: Gray Watson Email address: gray...@mailnull.com PostgreSQL version: 8.3.9 Operating system: debian linux Description: insert into fails with integer expression type char error Details:
I have 2 tables which have the same schema (as far as I can see) but when I try to do the following in psql: INSERT INTO old_log SELECT * FROM log WHERE time < '2010-02-01'; I get the error: ERROR: column "port" is of type integer but expression is of type character old_log is: Column | Type | Modifiers ---------+-----------------------------+------------------------------------ ---------------- port | integer | session | character(32) | account | text | slot | text | comment | text | not null time | timestamp without time zone | default ('now'::text)::timestamp(6) with time zone extra | text | addr | text | log is: Column | Type | Modifiers ---------+-----------------------------+------------------------------------ ---------------- port | integer | session | character(32) | account | text | slot | text | comment | text | not null time | timestamp without time zone | default ('now'::text)::timestamp(6) with time zone extra | text | addr | text | Indexes: "log_account" btree (account) "log_time" btree ("time") I tried making port have a default 0 and converting the null port values in log to be 0. I also dumped the table and looked at the fields and could not see a text one. Various different web searches leave me baffled. I see some array casting bullets in the 8.4.X release notes. If that is the fix, is there a 8.3.10 in the works? Thanks. -- Sent via pgsql-bugs mailing list (pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-bugs