David, I believe the (…) as giddy is what is returning the rec. If so you just need to change it to SET huc = giddy.huc
hth charles On Jan 27, 2011, at 5:37 PM, Poynter, David wrote: > Greetings PostGIS list, > > I am trying to populate a relate field (huc) in a point table > (permit_sites) from the gid field in a multi-polygon table (huc8). > > This is what I came up with: > > UPDATE permit_sites SET huc = giddy FROM (SELECT h.gid FROM huc8 h, > permit_sites p WHERE ST_Within(p.the_geom,h.the_geom)) AS giddy; > > Whence I get this response: > > ERROR: column "huc" is of type integer but expression is of type record > HINT: You will need to rewrite or cast the expression. > > Seems I can't take the hint, I tried casting but it is apparently > impossible to cast a record as an integer, at least for me. > > Any suggestions as to how I should proceed would be appreciated. > > david _______________________________________________ postgis-users mailing list postgis-users@postgis.refractions.net http://postgis.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users
