On Fri, 10 Dec 2004, Wei Weng wrote: > I have a table > > create table temp > ( > tempdate timestamp, > tempname varchar(10) > ); > > And I tried to insert the following: > > insert into table temp (tempname, tempdate) > select distinct 'tempname', null from some_other_relevant_table; > > And I got an error that says "column "tempdate" is of type timestamp ... but > expression is of type text... will need to rewrite or cast the expression". > > I really need the distinct. Is there anyway to cast this NULL into a > timestamp or any other workarounds?
CAST(NULL as timestamp) should work. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])