Stefan Schwarzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> But now, I have another problem in this context. If I use text in the  
> SELECT statement (so, that the final output gives me the name of the  
> selected variables, plus the year and the value) than I get this  
> error message: ERROR:  failed to find conversion function from  
> "unknown" to text

[squint...]  Try casting those literals to text explicitly, ie
SELECT 'pop_density'::text AS name.  There's some code in there
that makes this work for simple UNION cases, but maybe not so much
for select with a left join and order by and limit inside a union :-(

                        regards, tom lane

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