> Hmm but the first one has actually no name, it's just casted as datatype
> time. I now realise that casted columns get assigned the datatype as
> name. Should it not show ?column? as output just like you a "select
> null;" would do?
i think you're confusing what the front end uses as a default
On Thu, 2004-01-08 at 16:09, Tom Lane wrote:
> Travel Jadoo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > I could not find any discussion on this but imho this seems an erroneous
> > error occuring now in 7.3.4 (after upgrade from 7.2.3):
>
> > select null::time, 'test'::varchar as time order by time;
> > ERRO
Travel Jadoo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I could not find any discussion on this but imho this seems an erroneous
> error occuring now in 7.3.4 (after upgrade from 7.2.3):
> select null::time, 'test'::varchar as time order by time;
> ERROR: ORDER BY 'time' is ambiguous
What's erroneous about
I could not find any discussion on this but imho this seems an erroneous
error occuring now in 7.3.4 (after upgrade from 7.2.3):
select null::time, 'test'::varchar as time order by time;
ERROR: ORDER BY 'time' is ambiguous
The solution is to name the time datatype e.g.
select null::time as xy
